The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Zväzok 13William Miller, 1808 |
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Strana 8
... numbers , and English , he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression . That which is the prime virtue , and chief ornament , of Virgil , which distinguishes him from the rest of , writers , is so conspicuous in your verses ...
... numbers , and English , he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression . That which is the prime virtue , and chief ornament , of Virgil , which distinguishes him from the rest of , writers , is so conspicuous in your verses ...
Strana 16
... numbers are excellent , whose expressions are noble , whose thoughts are just , whose language is pure , whose satire is pointed , and whose sense is close ; what he borrows from the ancients , he repays with usury of his own , in coin ...
... numbers are excellent , whose expressions are noble , whose thoughts are just , whose language is pure , whose satire is pointed , and whose sense is close ; what he borrows from the ancients , he repays with usury of his own , in coin ...
Strana 17
... number on king Priam ; he kills the youngest in the same manner , and has provided his hero with a Patro- clus , under another name , only to bring him back to the wars , when his friend was killed . * The French have performed nothing ...
... number on king Priam ; he kills the youngest in the same manner , and has provided his hero with a Patro- clus , under another name , only to bring him back to the wars , when his friend was killed . * The French have performed nothing ...
Strana 24
... them exceed the Turks in number , he might have gained the victory for us Christians , without interesting heaven in the quarrel ; and that with as much ease , and as little credit to the conqueror , as when a party of 24 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... them exceed the Turks in number , he might have gained the victory for us Christians , without interesting heaven in the quarrel ; and that with as much ease , and as little credit to the conqueror , as when a party of 24 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
Strana 29
... numbers , and is master of the language in which he writes ; —if such a man , I say , be now arisen , or shall arise , I am vain enough to think , that I have proposed a model to him , by which he may build a nobler , a more beautiful ...
... numbers , and is master of the language in which he writes ; —if such a man , I say , be now arisen , or shall arise , I am vain enough to think , that I have proposed a model to him , by which he may build a nobler , a more beautiful ...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Zväzok 13 John Dryden Úplné zobrazenie - 1808 |
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Strana 178 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Strana 27 - Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, 19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong.
Strana 308 - Tell good Barzillai thou canst sing no more, And tell thy soul she should have fled before. Or fled she with his life, and left this verse To hang on her departed patron's hearse?
Strana 26 - And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.
Strana 27 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. 21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Strana 26 - His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Strana 399 - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.
Strana 17 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Strana 408 - The pines of Maenalus, the vocal grove, Are ever full of verse, and full of love ; They hear the hinds, they hear their god complain, Who suffered not the reeds to rise in vain.
Strana 222 - When wilt thou, mighty Jove, My wealthy uncle from this world remove...