The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 |
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Strana 7
... taken from the Greek original ; secondly , that the Eng- lish language was then unpolished , and far from the perfection which it has since attained ; so that the first version is not only ungrammatical and un- graceful , but in many ...
... taken from the Greek original ; secondly , that the Eng- lish language was then unpolished , and far from the perfection which it has since attained ; so that the first version is not only ungrammatical and un- graceful , but in many ...
Strana 14
... too well before ; they were decried as inventors of what only they betrayed ; nay their very wit was magnified , lest , being taken for fools , they might be thought too simple to forge an accusation . * Some of 14 DEDICATION OF.
... too well before ; they were decried as inventors of what only they betrayed ; nay their very wit was magnified , lest , being taken for fools , they might be thought too simple to forge an accusation . * Some of 14 DEDICATION OF.
Strana 29
... taken out those excellent pieces which he has distributed to posterity , and which give us occasion to deplore the loss of the residue , which either the injury of time , or the negligence of copiers , have denied to us . On this ...
... taken out those excellent pieces which he has distributed to posterity , and which give us occasion to deplore the loss of the residue , which either the injury of time , or the negligence of copiers , have denied to us . On this ...
Strana 55
... taken up already ; and few authors have travelled this way , but who have strewed it with rhetoric as they passed . For my own part , who must confess it to my shame , that I never read any thing but for pleasure , it has always been ...
... taken up already ; and few authors have travelled this way , but who have strewed it with rhetoric as they passed . For my own part , who must confess it to my shame , that I never read any thing but for pleasure , it has always been ...
Strana 61
... taken away ; you see the poor reasonable animal as naked as ever nature made him ; are made acquainted with his passions and his follies , and find the demi - god , a man . Plutarch himself has more than once defend- ed this kind of ...
... taken away ; you see the poor reasonable animal as naked as ever nature made him ; are made acquainted with his passions and his follies , and find the demi - god , a man . Plutarch himself has more than once defend- ed this kind of ...
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admirable afterwards amongst ancient answer Apelles appear atque beautiful believe betwixt bishop bishop of Winchester bishop of Worcester body called Cardinal of Bourbon Catholic cause church of England church of Rome Cicero colours commanded confess Correggio defence desire discourse divine draperies Dryden Duchess Duke of Guise endeavour excellent eyes farther favour figures genius give grace greatest hand Holy honour Huguenots imitate judgment king King of Navarre king's League learned least lights and shadows living majesty manner matter means mind nature never noble observed opinion painter painting particular passions Paul Veronese perfect person Philostratus picture pleasing Plutarch poet poetry Pope precept pretended prince principal quæ reader reason Reformation relation religion Roman rules saith scripture shew sight sort soul speak ther things thought tion Titian Trajan translation true truth ture virtue wherein whole wholly words XVII
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Strana 82 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
Strana 302 - I cannot do it without digression from my subject ; though it seems too strict at the first appearance, because it excludes all secret intrigues, which are the beauties of the modern stage ; for nothing can be carried on with privacy, when the Chorus is supposed to be always present. — But to proceed : I must say this to the advantage of painting, even above tragedy, that what this last represents in the space of many hours, the former shews us in one moment.
Strana 207 - What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?' Remember how often Paul appeals to his holy, just, unblameable life.
Strana 295 - ... are never to be made perfect, but always to be drawn with some specks of frailty and deficience ; such as they have been described to us in history, if they were real characters, or such as the poet began to shew them at their first appearance, if they were only fictitious or imaginary. The perfection of such stage-characters consists chiefly in their likeness to the deficient faulty nature, which is their original...
Strana 282 - Current through ages, she would stamp for thine! Let friendship, as she caus'd, excuse the deed; With thee, and such as thee, she must succeed. But what, if fashion tempted Pope astray ? The witch has spells, and Jervas knew a day When mode-struck Belles and Beaux were proud to come And buy of him a thousand years of bloom.* Ev'n then I deem it but a venal crime : Perish alone that selfish sordid rhyme, Which flatters lawless sway, or tinsel pride ; Let black Oblivion plunge it in her tide.
Strana 311 - ... cattle," says the Poet : or at best, the keepers of cattle for other men : they have nothing which is properly their own ; that is a sufficient mortification for me, while I am translating Virgil. But to copy the best author is a kind of praise if I perform it as I ought ; as a copy after Raphael is more to be commended than an original of any indifferent Painter. Under this head of invention is placed the disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole...
Strana 290 - Beautiful Form. Neither is there any man of the present age equal in the strength, proportion, and knitting of his limbs, to the Hercules of Farnese, made by Glycon; or any woman who can justly be compared with the Medicean Venus of Cleomenes. And upon this account the noblest Poets and the best Orators, when they...
Strana 305 - After all, it is a good thing to laugh at any rate ; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh: and, as Sir William Davenant observes, in his Preface to Gondibert, " It is the wisdom of a government to permit plays, (he might have added farces,) as it is the prudence of a carter to put bells upon his horses to make them carry their burdens cheerfully.
Strana 311 - Without invention, a painter is but a copier, and a poet but a plagiary of others. Both are allowed sometimes to copy, and translate ; but, as our author tells you, that is not the best part of their reputation. " Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle...
Strana 325 - Strong and glowing colours are the just resemblances of bold metaphors, but both must be judiciously applied; for there is a difference betwixt daring and fool-hardiness. Lucan and Statius often ventured them too far ; our Virgil never. But the great defect of the Pharsalia and the Thebais was in the design; if that had been more perfect, we might have forgiven many of their bold strokes in the colouring, or at least excused them; yet some of them are such as Demosthenes or Cicero could not have...