Life of DrydenClarendon Press, 1913 - 300 páginas |
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Página viii
... forces were everywhere being stored up , the explosion of which he did not always live to see . He did not live to see the pent - up force of long - endured misery break out in France in the crash of the Revolution , and tear the ...
... forces were everywhere being stored up , the explosion of which he did not always live to see . He did not live to see the pent - up force of long - endured misery break out in France in the crash of the Revolution , and tear the ...
Página xxiii
... force of his political prejudices , it is never deliberately sacrificed to effect . There are many instances of this to be found in the two lives contained in this volume ; perhaps none stronger than his plea for the probable sincerity ...
... force of his political prejudices , it is never deliberately sacrificed to effect . There are many instances of this to be found in the two lives contained in this volume ; perhaps none stronger than his plea for the probable sincerity ...
Página xxiv
... force of their example the authoritative fiat of a skilled criticism . Johnson had hoped by his Dictionary to give stability to the English language , and in this he failed , as it was inevitable he should . But his criticism ...
... force of their example the authoritative fiat of a skilled criticism . Johnson had hoped by his Dictionary to give stability to the English language , and in this he failed , as it was inevitable he should . But his criticism ...
Página xxv
... force into the version but what is given to the parts may be subducted from the whole , and the reader may be weary , though the critic may commend ' ( p . 97 ) . Though the allusion here is to transla- tions , the rule remains equally ...
... force into the version but what is given to the parts may be subducted from the whole , and the reader may be weary , though the critic may commend ' ( p . 97 ) . Though the allusion here is to transla- tions , the rule remains equally ...
Página xxix
... force ; they have given a complexion to the body of our speech , but the bones and sinews are Saxon . And in estimating Johnson's style we shall find its chief fault to be an over - pretentious Latinity . This shows most plainly ...
... force ; they have given a complexion to the body of our speech , but the bones and sinews are Saxon . And in estimating Johnson's style we shall find its chief fault to be an over - pretentious Latinity . This shows most plainly ...
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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.