Dryden: Poetry & Prose: With Essays by Congreve, Johnson, Scott and OthersClarendon Press, 1925 - 204 sivua |
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... · 138 · 138 · 138 · 139 · 139 140 · 140 140 141 Of Dramatic Poesy · 143 A Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire 153 Preface to Fables 160 • Notes • 177 INTRODUCTION WHEN we read the works of Dryden , we iv CONTENTS.
... · 138 · 138 · 138 · 139 · 139 140 · 140 140 141 Of Dramatic Poesy · 143 A Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire 153 Preface to Fables 160 • Notes • 177 INTRODUCTION WHEN we read the works of Dryden , we iv CONTENTS.
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... ( preface dated November 10 , 1666 ) . 1668. Of Dramatic Poesy , an Essay : see p . 199 . Dryden appointed Poet Laureate ( April ) , in succession to Sir William Davenant . 1669. Tyrannic Love ; published 1670 . 1670. The Conquest of ...
... ( preface dated November 10 , 1666 ) . 1668. Of Dramatic Poesy , an Essay : see p . 199 . Dryden appointed Poet Laureate ( April ) , in succession to Sir William Davenant . 1669. Tyrannic Love ; published 1670 . 1670. The Conquest of ...
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... Preface and translations from Virgil , Lucretius , Theocritus , and Horace ) . Death of Charles II , February 5 . ( March ) Threnodia Augustalis . Albion and Albanius , an Opera . 1686. Dryden joins the Roman Catholic Church . To the ...
... Preface and translations from Virgil , Lucretius , Theocritus , and Horace ) . Death of Charles II , February 5 . ( March ) Threnodia Augustalis . Albion and Albanius , an Opera . 1686. Dryden joins the Roman Catholic Church . To the ...
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... Preface , and in a poetical Dedication , a piece where his original fondness of remote conceits seems to have revived . Of the three pieces borrowed from Boccace , Sigismunda may be defended by the celebrity of the story . Theodore 30 ...
... Preface , and in a poetical Dedication , a piece where his original fondness of remote conceits seems to have revived . Of the three pieces borrowed from Boccace , Sigismunda may be defended by the celebrity of the story . Theodore 30 ...
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... the wittier a man is , he is 30 generally the more obnoxious . It succeeded as I wished ; the jest went round , and he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic . The Preface to FABLES Published March 1700 ' Tis with OF SATIRE 159.
... the wittier a man is , he is 30 generally the more obnoxious . It succeeded as I wished ; the jest went round , and he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic . The Preface to FABLES Published March 1700 ' Tis with OF SATIRE 159.
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Sivu 150 - 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.
Sivu 114 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Sivu 150 - 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...
Sivu 53 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Sivu 69 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied. And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honor blest.
Sivu 107 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Sivu 118 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before.
Sivu 74 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Sivu 82 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Sivu 152 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies, we had seen less of it than in him.