The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Acount of the Life and Writing of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Volume 3T. Cadel, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... beginning : Purpureus latè qui splendeat , unus et alter Assuitur pannus , —— as Horace says ; though the verses are golden , they are but patched into the garment . But our poet has always the goal in his eye , which directs him in his ...
... beginning : Purpureus latè qui splendeat , unus et alter Assuitur pannus , —— as Horace says ; though the verses are golden , they are but patched into the garment . But our poet has always the goal in his eye , which directs him in his ...
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... beginning and ending of his books : which you see Virgil has imitated with great success in those four books , which in my opinion are more perfect in their kind than even his divine Æneids . The turn of his verse he has likewise ...
... beginning and ending of his books : which you see Virgil has imitated with great success in those four books , which in my opinion are more perfect in their kind than even his divine Æneids . The turn of his verse he has likewise ...
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... beginning of a tempest , Extemplo Enea solvuntur frigore membra , & c . why may it not be supposed , that having been long at sea , he might be well acquainted with the nature of a storm ; and , by the rough beginning , foresee the ...
... beginning of a tempest , Extemplo Enea solvuntur frigore membra , & c . why may it not be supposed , that having been long at sea , he might be well acquainted with the nature of a storm ; and , by the rough beginning , foresee the ...
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... beginning to travel upwards to the meridian . I made my early ad- dresses to your lordship , in my ESSAY OF DRA- MATICK POETRY , and therein bespoke you to the world ; wherein , I have the right of a first dis- coverer . When I was ...
... beginning to travel upwards to the meridian . I made my early ad- dresses to your lordship , in my ESSAY OF DRA- MATICK POETRY , and therein bespoke you to the world ; wherein , I have the right of a first dis- coverer . When I was ...
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... beginning of the present , made concerning their prede- cessors ; of which Rowe's Life of Shakspeare , and Hughes's Life of Spencer , as well as the present observation of Dryden , furnish abundant evidence . Before Spencer went to ...
... beginning of the present , made concerning their prede- cessors ; of which Rowe's Life of Shakspeare , and Hughes's Life of Spencer , as well as the present observation of Dryden , furnish abundant evidence . Before Spencer went to ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
action admirable Æneas Æneid ÆNEIS afterwards amongst ancient appear Aristotle Augustus Augustus Cæsar beauty better betwixt Boccace Cæsar called Casaubon character Chaucer commendation confess copy criticks Dido Discourse Dryd Dryden Earl Eclogues endeavoured English Ennius epick poem errour excellent expression father fault French genius Georgick give given Grecians Greek hero heroick Homer honour Horace Iliad imitated invention judge judgment Julius Cæsar Jupiter Juvenal kind language Latin learned least lived Livius Andronicus Lord Lordship Lucian Lucilius Lucretius Lycortas manner master modern nature never noble numbers observed opinion original Ovid painter passage passions perfect Persius persons Petrarch pleased pleasure poet poetry Polybius Pope praise Preface publick reader reason Roman Rome satire Satyrs Segrais sense shew sort speak suppose Tacitus Theocritus things thought tion tragedy translation Turnus verse Virgil virtue wholly words write written
Passagens conhecidas
Página 214 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Página 214 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Página 629 - Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks, and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns; 'for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
Página 607 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Página 411 - And they did chide with him sharply. 2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Página 631 - Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse as neighe as ever he can : Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he, never so rudely and so large : Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe : He may not spare, although he were his brother, He moste as wel sayn o word as an other.
Página 189 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing...
Página 627 - I shall think fit hereafter, to describe another sort of Priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson; such as have given the last Blow to Christianity in this Age, by a Practice so contrary to their Doctrine.
Página 612 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Página 595 - What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose...