Essays of John Dryden, Nide 2Clarendon Press, 1926 |
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Sivu 12
... Epic Poem ; and in 25 that he has excelled even Virgil . Yet , without presum- ing to arraign our master , I may venture to affirm , that he is somewhat too talkative , and more than somewhat too digressive . This is so manifest , that ...
... Epic Poem ; and in 25 that he has excelled even Virgil . Yet , without presum- ing to arraign our master , I may venture to affirm , that he is somewhat too talkative , and more than somewhat too digressive . This is so manifest , that ...
Sivu 26
... Epic Poetry , I have confessed , that no man hitherto has reached , or so much as approached , to the excellencies of Homer , or of Virgil ; I must further add , that Statius , the best versificator next to 1 Of your Lordship in the ...
... Epic Poetry , I have confessed , that no man hitherto has reached , or so much as approached , to the excellencies of Homer , or of Virgil ; I must further add , that Statius , the best versificator next to 1 Of your Lordship in the ...
Sivu 29
... epic works ; his heavenly machines are many , and his human persons are but two . But I will not take Mr. Rymer's work out of his hands . He has 10 promised the world a critique on that author ; wherein , though he will not allow his ...
... epic works ; his heavenly machines are many , and his human persons are but two . But I will not take Mr. Rymer's work out of his hands . He has 10 promised the world a critique on that author ; wherein , though he will not allow his ...
Sivu 30
... epic poem . Besides these , or the like animadversions of them by other men , there is yet a further reason given , why they cannot possibly succeed so well as the 25 Ancients , even though we could allow them not to be inferior ...
... epic poem . Besides these , or the like animadversions of them by other men , there is yet a further reason given , why they cannot possibly succeed so well as the 25 Ancients , even though we could allow them not to be inferior ...
Sivu 31
... Epic Poem , or the heroic 20 action of some great commander , enterprised for the common good , and honour of the Christian cause , and executed happily , may be as well written now , as it was of old by the heathens ; provided the poet ...
... Epic Poem , or the heroic 20 action of some great commander , enterprised for the common good , and honour of the Christian cause , and executed happily , may be as well written now , as it was of old by the heathens ; provided the poet ...
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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.