The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... received the rudiments of his education at Tichmarsh , † and was admit- ted a king's scholar at Westminster , under the tuition of the celebrated Dr Bushby , for whom he ever afterwards entertained the most sincere veneration . One of ...
... received the rudiments of his education at Tichmarsh , † and was admit- ted a king's scholar at Westminster , under the tuition of the celebrated Dr Bushby , for whom he ever afterwards entertained the most sincere veneration . One of ...
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... you on the head , And you had been expell'd , had you not fled . " He received this degree by dispensation from the Arch- bishop of Canterbury . nor a fellow of the university , and certainly never LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN . 29.
... you on the head , And you had been expell'd , had you not fled . " He received this degree by dispensation from the Arch- bishop of Canterbury . nor a fellow of the university , and certainly never LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN . 29.
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... poet's father . But Mary Pickering , the poet's mother , was niece to Sir John Pickering ; and thus her son Sir Gilbert was her cousin - german also . court , and received the honour of his mock peer- 34 LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
... poet's father . But Mary Pickering , the poet's mother , was niece to Sir John Pickering ; and thus her son Sir Gilbert was her cousin - german also . court , and received the honour of his mock peer- 34 LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
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Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes John Dryden Walter Scott. court , and received the honour of his mock peer- age . The patronage of such a person was more like- ly to have elevated Dryden to the temporal great- ness and wealth ...
Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes John Dryden Walter Scott. court , and received the honour of his mock peer- age . The patronage of such a person was more like- ly to have elevated Dryden to the temporal great- ness and wealth ...
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... received amongst great persons ? I can assure you he is this day the envy of one who is lord in the art of quibbling , and who does not take it well , that any man should intrude so far into his province . " Vol . XV . p . 296 . sense ...
... received amongst great persons ? I can assure you he is this day the envy of one who is lord in the art of quibbling , and who does not take it well , that any man should intrude so far into his province . " Vol . XV . p . 296 . sense ...
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Página 170 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Página 169 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 311 - Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Página 313 - But, gracious God ! how well dost thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the' abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.
Página 189 - His style is boisterous and rough-hewn, his rhyme incorrigibly lewd, and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill-sounding. The little talent which he has, is fancy. He sometimes labours with a thought ; but, with the pudder he makes to bring it into the world...
Página 123 - I boldly answer him that an heroic poet is not tied to a bare representation of what is true, or exceeding probable : but that he may let himself loose to visionary objects, and to the representation of such things as, depending not on sense and therefore not to be comprehended by knowledge, may give him a freer scope for imagination.
Página 447 - Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage ; and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment.
Página 111 - Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.
Página 8 - England* began first that language; all our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court which could not parley Euphuism...
Página 473 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.