The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations, Volume 2Cadell and Davies, 1800 - 550 pages |
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... cause , were an earnest of that which such a parent and such an institution would produce in the person of a son ; but so unhappy an occasion of manifesting your own zeal in suffering for his present Majesty , the providence of GOD ...
... cause , were an earnest of that which such a parent and such an institution would produce in the person of a son ; but so unhappy an occasion of manifesting your own zeal in suffering for his present Majesty , the providence of GOD ...
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... cause , and the type of his unfortunate royal master . Yet after all , my Lord , if I may speak my thoughts , you are happy rather to us than to yourself ; for the multiplicity , the cares , and the vexations of your employment , have ...
... cause , and the type of his unfortunate royal master . Yet after all , my Lord , if I may speak my thoughts , you are happy rather to us than to yourself ; for the multiplicity , the cares , and the vexations of your employment , have ...
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... cause ; but having stood two trials from its enemies , one before it was acted , another in the representation , and having been in both acquitted , it is now to stand the publick censure in the reading ; where , since of necessity it ...
... cause ; but having stood two trials from its enemies , one before it was acted , another in the representation , and having been in both acquitted , it is now to stand the publick censure in the reading ; where , since of necessity it ...
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... cause , on which depends the future settlement and prosperity of three nations . The pilot's prayer to Neptune was ... causes , and admits of our endeavours with his concurrence . For our own parts we are sensible , as we ought , how ...
... cause , on which depends the future settlement and prosperity of three nations . The pilot's prayer to Neptune was ... causes , and admits of our endeavours with his concurrence . For our own parts we are sensible , as we ought , how ...
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... judged that a defence of this nature would require more room than a Preface reasonably could allow . For this cause , and for the importunities of the stationers , of it upon the stage , to precaution posterity against THE ...
... judged that a defence of this nature would require more room than a Preface reasonably could allow . For this cause , and for the importunities of the stationers , of it upon the stage , to precaution posterity against THE ...
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Page 21 - We who write, if we want the talent, yet have the excuse that we do it for a poor subsistence; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right where he said, "That no man is satisfied with his own condition.
Page 14 - All reasonable men have long since concluded, that the hero of the poem ought not to be a character of perfect virtue, for then he could not, without injustice, be made unhappy ; nor yet altogether wicked, because he could not then be pitied.
Page 13 - The death of Antony and Cleopatra is a subject which has been treated by the greatest wits of our nation, after Shakespeare; and by all so variously, that their example has given me the confidence to try myself in this bow of Ulysses amongst the crowd of suitors ; and, withal, to take my own measures, in aiming at the mark.
Page 314 - tis very improbable that we, who by the strength of our faculties cannot enter into the knowledge of any being, not so much as of our own, should be able to find out by them that supreme nature, which we cannot otherwise define than by saying it is infinite ; as if infinite were definable, or infinity a subject for our narrow understanding. They who would prove religion by reason, do but weaken the cause which they endeavour to support...
Page 21 - ... are discontented, because the poets will not admit them of their number. Thus the case is hard with writers : If they succeed not, they must starve; and if they do, some malicious satire is prepared to level them, for daring to please without their leave. But while they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment ; some poem of their own is to be produced, and the slaves are to be laid flat with their faces on the ground, that the monarch may appear...
Page 15 - Octavia to have met; or, if they had met, there must have only passed betwixt them some cold civilities, but no eagerness of repartee, for fear of offending against the greatness of their characters, and the modesty of their sex.
Page 255 - I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains, or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble, and of greater dignity, both for the sound and number, than any other verse in use amongst us ; in which I am 35 sure I have your approbation.
Page 206 - He let his wit run much on matters of religion: so that he passed for a bold and determined atheist; though he often protested to me, he was not one; and said, he believed there was not one in the world...
Page 17 - I'en croit. My comfort is, that by this opinion my enemies are but sucking critics, who would fain be nibbling ere their teeth are come. Yet, in this nicety of manners does the excellency of French poetry consist. Their heroes are the most civil people breathing ; but their good breeding seldom extends to a word of sense; all their wit is in their ceremony; they want the genius which animates our stage; and therefore it is but necessary, when they cannot please, that they should take care not to...
Page 152 - An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, and goddesses, and heroes, which at least are descended from them, and are in due time to be adopted into their number.