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 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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... French stage amongst the Moderns , which are extremely different from ours , by reason of their opposite taste ; yet even then , I had the presump- tion to dedicate to your Lordship : a very unfinished 15 piece , I must confess , and ...
... French stage amongst the Moderns , which are extremely different from ours , by reason of their opposite taste ; yet even then , I had the presump- tion to dedicate to your Lordship : a very unfinished 15 piece , I must confess , and ...
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... the same manner , and has provided his hero with a Patroclus , under another name , only to bring him back to the wars , when 35 his friend was killed . The French have performed nothing Original and Progress of Satire 27.
... the same manner , and has provided his hero with a Patroclus , under another name , only to bring him back to the wars , when 35 his friend was killed . The French have performed nothing Original and Progress of Satire 27.
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action admirable Æneas Æneid Æneis amongst ancient Andronicus Aristotle Augustus Augustus Cæsar beauty better betwixt Boccace Book Cæsar called Casaubon character Chaucer colouring Comedy commendation compass confess Cowley critics Dacier defend Dido discourse Dryden endeavoured Eneis English Ennius epic poem epic poetry example excellent father fault French genius Georgic give given Grecian Greek Heinsius hero heroic poem Holyday Homer honour Horace Iliads imitated instructive invention Italian judge judgment Julius Cæsar Jupiter Juvenal kind language Latin least Livius Andronicus Lord Lordship Lucilius manner master Menippus modern moral nature never noble numbers observed opinion Ovid Pacuvius painter Painting passions perfect Persius persons pleased pleasure poet poetry praise Preface prince Quintilian reader reason Satyrs Scaliger Segrais sense sort Spenser Tasso things thought tion Tis true tragedy translation turn Turnus verse vices Virgil virtue Walter Moyle wholly words write written
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Sivu 272 - 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 280 - 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 258 - They who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries: there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.
Sivu 247 - 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. Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Sivu 272 - House has eaten him up ; but I am sure it has devoured some part of his good manners and civility.
Sivu 258 - 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 258 - 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 255 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Sivu 267 - ... by the innovation of words; in the first place, not only their beauty but their being is lost where they are no longer understood, which is the present case. I grant that something must be lost in all transfusion, that is, in all translations; but the sense will remain, which would otherwise be lost, or at least be maimed, when it is scarce intelligible; and that but to a few.
Sivu 93 - ... there is still a vast difference betwixt the slovenly butchering of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefactor die sweetly was only belonging to her husband.