The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...H. Baldwin and Son, 1800 |
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Page 163
... March , 1681-2 , " produced several Answers , the authors of which • Dryden's " Satire to his Muse , " 4to . 1682. " The Laureate , " fol . 1687. Langbaine's " Account of the Dra- matick Poets , " 1691. T. Brown's " Reasons of Mr. " Mil ...
... March , 1681-2 , " produced several Answers , the authors of which • Dryden's " Satire to his Muse , " 4to . 1682. " The Laureate , " fol . 1687. Langbaine's " Account of the Dra- matick Poets , " 1691. T. Brown's " Reasons of Mr. " Mil ...
Page 164
... ( March 23 , ) according to Mr. Luttrell's copy , THE MUSHROOм appeared . The author , as the same gentleman has noted , was the celebrated Edmund Hickeringill . THE MEDAL REVERSED , a poem printed ano- nymously in quarto , which has also ...
... ( March 23 , ) according to Mr. Luttrell's copy , THE MUSHROOм appeared . The author , as the same gentleman has noted , was the celebrated Edmund Hickeringill . THE MEDAL REVERSED , a poem printed ano- nymously in quarto , which has also ...
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John Dryden. peared on the 31st of March ; and THE LOYAL MEDAL VINDICATED , of which I know not the author , on the 8th of April . THE MEDAL OF JOHN BAYES , a poem ascribed by Mr. Luttrell to Shadwell , was produced on the 15th of May ...
John Dryden. peared on the 31st of March ; and THE LOYAL MEDAL VINDICATED , of which I know not the author , on the 8th of April . THE MEDAL OF JOHN BAYES , a poem ascribed by Mr. Luttrell to Shadwell , was produced on the 15th of May ...
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... March , 1681-2 : · pocts , we all know , can change , like you , " And are alone to their own interest true ; " Can write against all sense , nay ev'n their own : " The vehicle call'd pension makes it down . " No fear of cudgels , where ...
... March , 1681-2 : · pocts , we all know , can change , like you , " And are alone to their own interest true ; " Can write against all sense , nay ev'n their own : " The vehicle call'd pension makes it down . " No fear of cudgels , where ...
Page 176
... March 30 , 1676. At the time , therefore , 3 " 1676. Martii trigesimo die . Thomas Southerne , Pen- sionarius , filius Francisci Southerne , annum agens sep- temdecimum , natus in comitatu Dublinii , educatus apud Edw . Whitenhall , SS ...
... March 30 , 1676. At the time , therefore , 3 " 1676. Martii trigesimo die . Thomas Southerne , Pen- sionarius , filius Francisci Southerne , annum agens sep- temdecimum , natus in comitatu Dublinii , educatus apud Edw . Whitenhall , SS ...
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Page xviii - 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 143 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Page 390 - 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 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 479 - ... out of the country with one : however, in spite of my bashfulness and appearance, I used now and then to thrust myself into Will's, to have the pleasure of seeing the most celebrated wits of that time, who used to resort thither.
Page 134 - I have sent you herewith a libel, in which my own share is not the least. The king having perused it, is no way dissatisfied with his. The author is apparently Mr Dr[yden], his patron, Lord M[ulgrave,] having a panegyric in the midst.
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 179 - Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler ; but neither of them had the happiness to live till your Lordship's ministry.
Page 150 - tis for parents to forgive! With how few tears a pardon might be won From nature, pleading for a darling son!
Page 460 - He was of very easy, I may say, of very pleasing access ; but something slow, and, as it were, diffident in his advances to others. He had something in his nature, that abhorred intrusion into any society whatsoever.