The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...H. Baldwin and Son, 1800 |
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... line : 66 This , some years hence , our poet's case may prove : " . and soon afterwards the author adds , " When forty comes , if e'er he lives to see " That wretched fumbling age of poetry , " & c . Who would not suppose that he was ...
... line : 66 This , some years hence , our poet's case may prove : " . and soon afterwards the author adds , " When forty comes , if e'er he lives to see " That wretched fumbling age of poetry , " & c . Who would not suppose that he was ...
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... lines makes it a question whether he ever was christened : " And though no wit can royal blood infuse , " No more than melt a mother to a Muse , " Yet much a certain poet undertook , " That men and manners deals in without book " And ...
... lines makes it a question whether he ever was christened : " And though no wit can royal blood infuse , " No more than melt a mother to a Muse , " Yet much a certain poet undertook , " That men and manners deals in without book " And ...
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... line in commendation of my friend . " Yet ' tis but of the second hand ; if ought " There be in this , ' tis from thy fancy brought . " Good thief , who dar'st , Prometheus - like , aspire , " And fill thy poems with celestiall fire ...
... line in commendation of my friend . " Yet ' tis but of the second hand ; if ought " There be in this , ' tis from thy fancy brought . " Good thief , who dar'st , Prometheus - like , aspire , " And fill thy poems with celestiall fire ...
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... line : " Lympha pudica DEUM vidit , et erubuit . " But he certainly has no title to this pentameter ; for it is found , with a slight variation , in an epigram on this subject , by Richard Crashaw , published in his EPIgram . MATA SACRA ...
... line : " Lympha pudica DEUM vidit , et erubuit . " But he certainly has no title to this pentameter ; for it is found , with a slight variation , in an epigram on this subject , by Richard Crashaw , published in his EPIgram . MATA SACRA ...
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... lines only remain , ad- dressed to his cousin - german , Honor Driden , in 1655 ; to whom at that time he seems to have paid his addresses in vain . Perhaps the name of Honoria , in one of his earliest plays , ( THE RIVAL LADIES , ) was ...
... lines only remain , ad- dressed to his cousin - german , Honor Driden , in 1655 ; to whom at that time he seems to have paid his addresses in vain . Perhaps the name of Honoria , in one of his earliest plays , ( THE RIVAL LADIES , ) was ...
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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.