The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations, Volume 1, Part 1Cadell and Davies, 1800 - 442 pages |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... things which they once destroyed . ” Cromwell's House of Lords consisted of sixty - two persons , but not more than forty - five sat ; among whom were Pride the Drayman , and Hewson the Cobler . 2 As the pamphlet containing the ...
... things which they once destroyed . ” Cromwell's House of Lords consisted of sixty - two persons , but not more than forty - five sat ; among whom were Pride the Drayman , and Hewson the Cobler . 2 As the pamphlet containing the ...
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... things considered , if , notwithstanding Mr. Dry- den's said agreement , promise , and moneys freely given him for his said last new play , and the many titles we have to his writings , this play be judged away from us , we must submit ...
... things considered , if , notwithstanding Mr. Dry- den's said agreement , promise , and moneys freely given him for his said last new play , and the many titles we have to his writings , this play be judged away from us , we must submit ...
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... thing in their conduct to each other not easily to be explained ; but the progress of their literary warfare may be traced without difficulty . In the Dedication of THE RIVAL LADIES to Lord Orrery , in 1664 , Dryden had asserted the ...
... thing in their conduct to each other not easily to be explained ; but the progress of their literary warfare may be traced without difficulty . In the Dedication of THE RIVAL LADIES to Lord Orrery , in 1664 , Dryden had asserted the ...
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... things which other men said , " Makes this new way of writing without tail or head . " But where the devil his own wit doth lie , " They must have very good eyes that espy , " Unless in the dances and mimickry . " I confess the dances ...
... things which other men said , " Makes this new way of writing without tail or head . " But where the devil his own wit doth lie , " They must have very good eyes that espy , " Unless in the dances and mimickry . " I confess the dances ...
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Page 392 - He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page xviii - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous : what is little is gay; what is great is splendid.
Page 304 - Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse, Soft pity to infuse ; He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate, Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...
Page 153 - One day as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, ' If I was a poet, (and I think I am poor enough to be one,) I would write a poem on such a subject in the following manner,' and then gave him the plan for it.
Page 525 - is Tonson. You will take care not to depart before he goes away : for I have not completed the sheet which I promised him ; and if you leave me unprotected, I must suffer all the rudeness to which his resentment can prompt his tongue.
Page viii - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Page 62 - Neander, to be in company together; three of them persons whom their wit and quality have made known to all the town; and whom I have chose to hide under these borrowed names, that they may not suffer by so ill a relation as I am going to make of their discourse.
Page x - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
Page 303 - The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again : At length, with love and wine at once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast.
Page 257 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.