The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Nide 3T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... Lord Somers . " In 1680 , the epistles of Ovid being translated by the poets of the time , it was necessary ( says Dr. Johnson ) to introduce them by a preface ; and Dryden , who on such occasions was regularly summoned , prefixed a ...
... Lord Somers . " In 1680 , the epistles of Ovid being translated by the poets of the time , it was necessary ( says Dr. Johnson ) to introduce them by a preface ; and Dryden , who on such occasions was regularly summoned , prefixed a ...
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... Lord Roscommon's Essay on translated Verse , which made me uneasy till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules , and of reducing the speculation into practice . For many a fair precept in poetry is like a seeming ...
... Lord Roscommon's Essay on translated Verse , which made me uneasy till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules , and of reducing the speculation into practice . For many a fair precept in poetry is like a seeming ...
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... poets in his own lan- guage , were it possible to do him right , must ap- pear above them in our tongue ; which , as my Lord Roscommon justly observes , approaches nearest to the Roman in its majesty ; nearest indeed , 34 PREFACE TO THE.
... poets in his own lan- guage , were it possible to do him right , must ap- pear above them in our tongue ; which , as my Lord Roscommon justly observes , approaches nearest to the Roman in its majesty ; nearest indeed , 34 PREFACE TO THE.
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... Lord Roscommon so happily begins his Essay on Translated Verse : the other is no less than our admired Cowley ; who says the same 6 6 The Earl of Mulgrave's ESSAY ON POETRY , he tells us himself , was written in 1675 ; but , according ...
... Lord Roscommon so happily begins his Essay on Translated Verse : the other is no less than our admired Cowley ; who says the same 6 6 The Earl of Mulgrave's ESSAY ON POETRY , he tells us himself , was written in 1675 ; but , according ...
Sivu 57
... LORD , THE commands , with which you honoured me some months ago , are now performed : they had been sooner , but betwixt ill health , some bu- 8 The lady in honour of whom this poem was written , was Eleonora , eldest daughter , and at ...
... LORD , THE commands , with which you honoured me some months ago , are now performed : they had been sooner , but betwixt ill health , some bu- 8 The lady in honour of whom this poem was written , was Eleonora , eldest daughter , and at ...
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Sivu 214 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Sivu 214 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Sivu 629 - Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks, and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns; 'for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
Sivu 214 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Sivu 607 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Sivu 187 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily 1 but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms...
Sivu 650 - 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 189 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, 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...
Sivu 595 - What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose...
Sivu 627 - I shall think fit hereafter, to describe another sort of Priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson; such as have given the last Blow to Christianity in this Age, by a Practice so contrary to their Doctrine.