The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations, Zväzok 1,Časť 2Cadell and Davies, 1800 - 596 strán (strany) |
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... appears to have sent the poet a letter of thanks for his Dedication , to which this reply was made some time afterwards . I have therefore affixed - July , 1673 , as a conjectural date to it . The second Dutch war was then carrying on ...
... appears to have sent the poet a letter of thanks for his Dedication , to which this reply was made some time afterwards . I have therefore affixed - July , 1673 , as a conjectural date to it . The second Dutch war was then carrying on ...
Strana 14
... appears to have been written by our author's wife , Lady Elizabeth Dry- den , about the same time with the above . HONNORED SIR , Ascension Day , [ 1682. ] I HOPE I need use noe other argument to you in ex- cuse of my sonn for not ...
... appears to have been written by our author's wife , Lady Elizabeth Dry- den , about the same time with the above . HONNORED SIR , Ascension Day , [ 1682. ] I HOPE I need use noe other argument to you in ex- cuse of my sonn for not ...
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... appear grounds for it , and wch I beg you wou'd concider of ; and then I believe I shall at least bee excused . You may please , S ' , to remember that upon my first proposal about y 3d Missellany , I offer'd fifty pounds , and talk'd ...
... appear grounds for it , and wch I beg you wou'd concider of ; and then I believe I shall at least bee excused . You may please , S ' , to remember that upon my first proposal about y 3d Missellany , I offer'd fifty pounds , and talk'd ...
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... appears from the Gentleman's Journal , by P. Motteux , ) in Dec. 1692. The date in the titlepage is , 1693 . I In the dedication to Lord Radcliffe . See vol . iii . p . 269 . 2 The Letter referred to was as follows : 66 " DEAR SIR , TO ...
... appears from the Gentleman's Journal , by P. Motteux , ) in Dec. 1692. The date in the titlepage is , 1693 . I In the dedication to Lord Radcliffe . See vol . iii . p . 269 . 2 The Letter referred to was as follows : 66 " DEAR SIR , TO ...
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... appear tasteless to me in most ; and Waller himself , with all his gallantry , and ali that admirable art of his turns , appears three quarters prose to me . Thus ' tis plain , that your Muse has done me an injury ; but she has made me ...
... appear tasteless to me in most ; and Waller himself , with all his gallantry , and ali that admirable art of his turns , appears three quarters prose to me . Thus ' tis plain , that your Muse has done me an injury ; but she has made me ...
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Strana 83 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Strana 110 - This last is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility.
Strana 83 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets *Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
Strana 266 - ... saw before him. He knew that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity. Characters thus ample and general were not easily discriminated and preserved; yet perhaps no poet ever kept his personages more distinct from each other. I will not say with Pope, that every speech may be assigned to the proper speaker...
Strana 29 - ... almost a new nature has been revealed to us ? that more errors of the school have been detected, more useful experiments in philosophy have been made, more noble secrets in optics, medicine, anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us ? — so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science, when rightly and generally cultivated.
Strana 16 - Ne pueros coram populo Medea trucidet, Aut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus, Aut in avem Progne vertatur, Cadmus in anguem. Quodcunque ostendis mihi sic , incredulus odi.
Strana 86 - One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter. Wit and language, and humour also, in some measure, we had before him ; but something of art was wanting to the drama till he came.
Strana 278 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. DUCH. Alas, poor Richard! where rides he the whilst? YORK. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Strana 147 - Our language is noble, full, and significant, and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words.
Strana 166 - Pontus ; we know that there is neither war nor preparation for war; we know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus, that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions, and why may not the second imitation represent an action that happened years after the first if it be so connected with it that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is...