Essays of John Dryden, Nide 2Clarendon Press, 1926 |
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... French , Italian , and Spanish , of these latter ages . 20 Indeed , there is a vast difference betwixt arguing like Perrault , in behalf of the French poets , against Homer and Virgil , and betwixt giving the English poets their ...
... French , Italian , and Spanish , of these latter ages . 20 Indeed , there is a vast difference betwixt arguing like Perrault , in behalf of the French poets , against Homer and Virgil , and betwixt giving the English poets their ...
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... French dramatic writers excel the English . Our authors as far surpass them in genius , as our soldiers excel theirs in courage . ' Tis true , in conduct they surpass us either way ; yet that proceeds not so much from their greater ...
... French dramatic writers excel the English . Our authors as far surpass them in genius , as our soldiers excel theirs in courage . ' Tis true , in conduct they surpass us either way ; yet that proceeds not so much from their greater ...
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... French , Italian , and Spanish , of these latter ages . 20 Indeed , there is a vast difference betwixt arguing like Perrault , in behalf of the French poets , against Homer and Virgil , and betwixt giving the English poets their ...
... French , Italian , and Spanish , of these latter ages . 20 Indeed , there is a vast difference betwixt arguing like Perrault , in behalf of the French poets , against Homer and Virgil , and betwixt giving the English poets their ...
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... French dramatic writers excel the English . Our authors as far surpass them in genius , as our soldiers excel theirs in courage . ' Tis true , in conduct they surpass us either way ; yet that proceeds not so much from their greater ...
... French dramatic writers excel the English . Our authors as far surpass them in genius , as our soldiers excel theirs in courage . ' Tis true , in conduct they surpass us either way ; yet that proceeds not so much from their greater ...
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... French and the Italians have made it an inviolable precept in their versification ; therein following the severe example of the Latin poets . Our countrymen have not yet reformed their poetry so far , but content themselves with ...
... French and the Italians have made it an inviolable precept in their versification ; therein following the severe example of the Latin poets . Our countrymen have not yet reformed their poetry so far , but content themselves with ...
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Sivu 270 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Sivu 278 - 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. 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.
Sivu 264 - ... against it. If the first end of a writer be to be understood, then, as his language grows obsolete, his thoughts must grow obscure — Multa renascentur, quae nunc cecidcre; cadentque Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus. Quern penes arbitrium est et jus et norma loquendi.
Sivu 257 - ... in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses which are lame for want of half a foot and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.
Sivu 270 - House has eaten him up ; but I am sure it has devoured some part of his good manners and civility.
Sivu 256 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Sivu 256 - Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her; and there is a great difference of being poeta and nimis poeta, if we may believe Catullus, as much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; but...
Sivu 233 - ... whether it will agree with the English idiom: after this, he ought to take the opinion of judicious friends, such as are learned in both languages: and, lastly, since no man is infallible, let him use this licence very sparingly; for if too many foreign words are poured in upon us, it looks as if they were designed not to assist the natives, but to conquer them.
Sivu 253 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Sivu 245 - Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr. Waller of Fairfax, for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families.