The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...H. Baldwin and Son, 1800 |
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... HEROICK PLAYS Defence of the Epilogue to the Second Part of THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA · The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy 187 .. 207 225 255 299 315 Heads of an Answer to Rymer's Treatise on the Tragedies of the last Age . Preface to ...
... HEROICK PLAYS Defence of the Epilogue to the Second Part of THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA · The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy 187 .. 207 225 255 299 315 Heads of an Answer to Rymer's Treatise on the Tragedies of the last Age . Preface to ...
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... heroick poetry , I cannot but conclude with Mr. Rymer , that our English comedy is far beyond any thing of the Ancients : and notwithstanding our irregularities , so is our tragedy . Shakspeare had a genius for it ; and we know , in ...
... heroick poetry , I cannot but conclude with Mr. Rymer , that our English comedy is far beyond any thing of the Ancients : and notwithstanding our irregularities , so is our tragedy . Shakspeare had a genius for it ; and we know , in ...
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... heroick poem , P , 427. I. 10 from the bottom . " Stavo ben , " & c . I have in vain consulted many books of travels into Italy , in order to discover where or when this monumental in- scription was set up , and on whom it was written ...
... heroick poem , P , 427. I. 10 from the bottom . " Stavo ben , " & c . I have in vain consulted many books of travels into Italy , in order to discover where or when this monumental in- scription was set up , and on whom it was written ...
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... heroick rhyme is nearest nature , as being the noblest kind of modern verse . Indignatur enim privatis , et prope socco Dignis , carminibus , narrari cœna Thyesta- says Horace and in another place , Effutire leves indigna tragadia ...
... heroick rhyme is nearest nature , as being the noblest kind of modern verse . Indignatur enim privatis , et prope socco Dignis , carminibus , narrari cœna Thyesta- says Horace and in another place , Effutire leves indigna tragadia ...
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... heroick plays ; but this design I have waved on second considerations ; at least deferred it till I publish THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA , where the discourse will be more proper . I had also pre- pared to treat of the improvement of our ...
... heroick plays ; but this design I have waved on second considerations ; at least deferred it till I publish THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA , where the discourse will be more proper . I had also pre- pared to treat of the improvement of our ...
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Page 95 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Page 99 - He was deeply conversant in the ancients, both Greek and Latin, and he borrowed boldly from them : there is scarce a poet or historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he has not translated in Sejanus and Catiline. But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Page 38 - Crites himself did not much oppose it: and every one was willing to acknowledge how much our poesy is improved, by the happiness of some writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make our rhyme so properly a part of the verse, that it should never mislead the sense, but itself be led and governed by it.
Page 193 - Witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age. I suppose I need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the historical plays of Shakespeare : besides many of the rest, as the Winter's Tale, Love's Labour Lost, Measure for Measure...
Page 142 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 242 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her.
Page 66 - ... stuffs; and two actions, that is, two plays, carried on together, to the confounding of the audience; who, before they are warm in their concernments for one part, are diverted to another; and by that means espouse the interest of neither.
Page 30 - The drift of the ensuing discourse is chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them. This I intimate, lest any should think me so exceeding vain, as to teach others an art, which they understand much better than myself.
Page 122 - I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing betwixt what is nearest to the nature of comedy, — which is the imitation of common persons and ordinary speaking, — and what is nearest the nature of a serious play. "This last is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch.
Page 211 - The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force, by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety...