The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations, Nide 3Cadell and Davies, 1800 - 662 sivua |
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Sivu 10
... speak too partially in his behalf , I will confess that the copiousness of his wit was such , that he often writ too pointedly for . his subject , and made his persons speak more eloquently than the violence of their passion would admit ...
... speak too partially in his behalf , I will confess that the copiousness of his wit was such , that he often writ too pointedly for . his subject , and made his persons speak more eloquently than the violence of their passion would admit ...
Sivu 13
... speak sometimes as if they had been born in the city of Rome , and under the empire of Augustus . There seems to be no great variety in the particular subjects which he has chosen ; most of the Epistles being written from ladies who ...
... speak sometimes as if they had been born in the city of Rome , and under the empire of Augustus . There seems to be no great variety in the particular subjects which he has chosen ; most of the Epistles being written from ladies who ...
Sivu 16
... mores hominum multorum vidit , et urbes . Muse , speak the man , who since the siege of Troy , So many towns , such change of manners saw . EARL OF ROSCOMMON . But then the sufferings of Ulysses , which are a 16 PREFACE TO.
... mores hominum multorum vidit , et urbes . Muse , speak the man , who since the siege of Troy , So many towns , such change of manners saw . EARL OF ROSCOMMON . But then the sufferings of Ulysses , which are a 16 PREFACE TO.
Sivu 18
... speak English , and that was to be performed by no other way than imita- tion . But if Virgil , or Ovid , or any regular intelli- gible authors be thus used , it is no longer to be called their work , when neither the thoughts nor words ...
... speak English , and that was to be performed by no other way than imita- tion . But if Virgil , or Ovid , or any regular intelli- gible authors be thus used , it is no longer to be called their work , when neither the thoughts nor words ...
Sivu 20
... speaking , is to be sacred and inviolable . If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant , it is his character to be so ; and if I retrench it , he is no longer Ovid . It will be replied , that he receives advantage by this lopping of his ...
... speaking , is to be sacred and inviolable . If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant , it is his character to be so ; and if I retrench it , he is no longer Ovid . It will be replied , that he receives advantage by this lopping of his ...
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action admirable Æneas Æneid afterwards amongst ancient appear Aristotle Augustus Augustus Cæsar beauty better betwixt Boccace Cæsar called Casaubon character Chaucer commendation confess copy criticks Dido Discourse Dryd Dryden Earl Eclogues endeavoured English Ennius epick poem errour excellent expression father fault French genius Georgick give given Grecians Greek hero heroick Homer honour Horace Iliad imitated invention JOHN DRYDEN judge judgment Julius Cæsar Jupiter Juvenal kind language Latin learned least lived Livius Andronicus Lord Lordship Lucian Lucilius Lucretius Lycortas manner master modern nature never noble numbers observed opinion original Ovid painter passage passions perfect Persius persons Petrarch pleased pleasure poet poetry Polybius Pope praise Preface publick reader reason Roman Rome satire Satyrs Segrais sense shew sort speak suppose Theocritus things thought tion tragedy translation Turnus verse Virgil virtue wholly words write written
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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 ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds...
Sivu 610 - I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him : for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting...
Sivu 189 - A man so various, that he seem'd 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 chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Sivu 14 - The third way is that of imitation, where the translator, if now he has not lost that name, assumes the liberty not only to vary from the words and sense, but to forsake them both, as he sees occasion : and taking only some general hints from the original, to run division on the ground-work, as he pleases.
Sivu 627 - 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 605 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Sivu 648 - 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 629 - Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse as neighe as ever he can : Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he, never so rudely and so large : Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe : He may not spare, although he were his brother, He moste as wel sayn o word as an other.
Sivu 409 - And they did chide with him sharply. 2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Sivu 593 - 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...