Life of DrydenClarendon Press, 1913 - 300 páginas |
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... Bayes tells how many reams he has printed to instil into the audience some conception of his plot . In this play is the description of Night , which Rymer has made famous by preferring it to those of all other poets . The practice of ...
... Bayes tells how many reams he has printed to instil into the audience some conception of his plot . In this play is the description of Night , which Rymer has made famous by preferring it to those of all other poets . The practice of ...
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... Bayes in the ' Rehearsal , ' a farce which he is said to have written with the assistance of Butler the author of ' Hudibras , ' Martin Clifford of the Charterhouse , and Dr. Sprat , the friend of Cowley , then his chaplain . Dryden and ...
... Bayes in the ' Rehearsal , ' a farce which he is said to have written with the assistance of Butler the author of ' Hudibras , ' Martin Clifford of the Charterhouse , and Dr. Sprat , the friend of Cowley , then his chaplain . Dryden and ...
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... Bayes probably imitated the dress and mimicked the manner of Dryden ; the cant words which are so often in his mouth may be supposed to have been Dryden's habitual phrases or customary exclama- tions . Bayes , when he is to write , is ...
... Bayes probably imitated the dress and mimicked the manner of Dryden ; the cant words which are so often in his mouth may be supposed to have been Dryden's habitual phrases or customary exclama- tions . Bayes , when he is to write , is ...
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... pass uncensured . Three dialogues were published by the facetious Thomas Brown , of which the two first were called ' Reasons of Mr. Bayes's changing his Religion ' : and 1 1687 . IO the third , ' The Reasons of Mr. Hains DRYDEN . 39.
... pass uncensured . Three dialogues were published by the facetious Thomas Brown , of which the two first were called ' Reasons of Mr. Bayes's changing his Religion ' : and 1 1687 . IO the third , ' The Reasons of Mr. Hains DRYDEN . 39.
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... Bayes is brought into the com- pany of Crites and Eugenius , with whom he had formerly debated on dramatic poetry . The two talkers in the third are Mr. Bayes and Mr. Hains . Brown was a man not deficient in literature , nor destitute ...
... Bayes is brought into the com- pany of Crites and Eugenius , with whom he had formerly debated on dramatic poetry . The two talkers in the third are Mr. Bayes and Mr. Hains . Brown was a man not deficient in literature , nor destitute ...
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Absalom Absalom and Achitophel Æneid afterwards Albion and Albanius Alexandrine ancients Annus Mirabilis appeared Bayes Boswell C. S. JERRAM called censure character Charles Charles Dryden conversation Cowley criticism Davenant death dedication defence dramatic Dryden Duke Duke of Guise Earl elegant English Essay excellence Fables favour genius GEORGE STOCK Georgics Gondibert Gorboduc GREEK heroic honour Hudibras John Dryden Johnson Juvenal King knew labour language Latin letter lines Lives Lord Malone meaning Milton mind nature never numbers Oxford P.SS passages passions perhaps pity and terror play poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise preface prose published quoted Rasselas reader reason religion revised rhyme Rymer satire says Second Edition seems SELECTIONS sense sentence Shakspeare shew Sir Robert Howard sometimes stanza style suppose thought tion Tonson tragedy translation verse Virgil vocabulary W. H. D. Rouse Waller word writing written wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 9 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Página 27 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Página xxi - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página 25 - Hence it is, that, when the deed is done, when the work of darkness is perfect, then the world of darkness passes away like a pageantry in the clouds: the knocking at the gate is heard; and it makes known audibly that the reaction has commenced : the human has made its reflux upon the fiendish; the pulses of life are beginning to beat again; and the re-establishment of the goings-on of the world in which we live first makes us profoundly sensible of the awful parenthesis that had suspended them.
Página xxi - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Página xiv - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Página 69 - Every thing is excused by the play of images and the sprightliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble ; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh ; and though since his earlier works more than a century has passed, they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete.
Página 19 - Dryden indulges his favourite pleasure of discrediting his predecessors ; and this Epilogue he has defended by a long postscript. He had promised a second dialogue, in which he should...
Página 8 - Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.