The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings 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 3H. Baldwin and Son, New-Bridge-Street, 1800 - English prose literature |
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... present made him , when he expects the payment of a debt . way , it To state it fairly , imitation of an author is the most advantageous way for a translator to shew himself , but the greatest wrong which can be done to the memory and ...
... present made him , when he expects the payment of a debt . way , it To state it fairly , imitation of an author is the most advantageous way for a translator to shew himself , but the greatest wrong which can be done to the memory and ...
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... present work : the reader will here find most of the translations , with some little latitude or varia- tion from the author's sense . That of Enone to Paris , is in Mr. Cowley's way of imitation only . I was desired to say , that the ...
... present work : the reader will here find most of the translations , with some little latitude or varia- tion from the author's sense . That of Enone to Paris , is in Mr. Cowley's way of imitation only . I was desired to say , that the ...
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... man , even though a heathen . We naturally aim at happiness , and cannot bear to have it confined to the shortness of our present being , especially when we consider that virtue is generally unhappy in this 38 PREFACE TO THE.
... man , even though a heathen . We naturally aim at happiness , and cannot bear to have it confined to the shortness of our present being , especially when we consider that virtue is generally unhappy in this 38 PREFACE TO THE.
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... present undertaking , ' I confine Our author , in the construction of this sentence , has fallen into an inaccuracy . Instead of " are no part , " he should have written " are any part , " & c . myself wholly to his Odes . These are ...
... present undertaking , ' I confine Our author , in the construction of this sentence , has fallen into an inaccuracy . Instead of " are no part , " he should have written " are any part , " & c . myself wholly to his Odes . These are ...
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... present Earl of Rochester , to whom I have parti- cular obligations , which this small testimony of my gratitude can never pay . It is his darling in the Latin , and I have taken some pains to make it my masterpiece in English : for ...
... present Earl of Rochester , to whom I have parti- cular obligations , which this small testimony of my gratitude can never pay . It is his darling in the Latin , and I have taken some pains to make it my masterpiece in English : for ...
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Page 210 - 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 But wherefore all night long shine these?
Page 185 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Page 210 - 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, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 589 - 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.
Page 588 - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Page 610 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 569 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Page 557 - 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...
Page 606 - Achitophel, which he thinks is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly with his two poems, because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead: and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs.
Page 591 - If I had desired more to please than to instruct, the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her Tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers as there are beaux and ladies of pleasure in the town.