The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - 368 sivua |
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Sivu xxi
... remains entire to decide according to the merits of the cause , or if they please , to bring it to another hearing , before fome other court . In the mean time , to follow the thread of my difcourfe , ( as thoughts , according to Mr ...
... remains entire to decide according to the merits of the cause , or if they please , to bring it to another hearing , before fome other court . In the mean time , to follow the thread of my difcourfe , ( as thoughts , according to Mr ...
Sivu xxxi
... remains that I fay fomewhat of Chaucer in particular . In the first place , as he is the father of English poetry , fo I hold him in the same degree of venera- tion as the Grecians held Homer , or the Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual ...
... remains that I fay fomewhat of Chaucer in particular . In the first place , as he is the father of English poetry , fo I hold him in the same degree of venera- tion as the Grecians held Homer , or the Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual ...
Sivu 6
... remains , and dimnefs of a fhade . } A fubject in his prince may claim a right , Nor fuffer him with ftrength impair'd to fight ; Till force returns , his ardor we restrain , And curb his warlike wish to cross the main , Now past the ...
... remains , and dimnefs of a fhade . } A fubject in his prince may claim a right , Nor fuffer him with ftrength impair'd to fight ; Till force returns , his ardor we restrain , And curb his warlike wish to cross the main , Now past the ...
Sivu 30
... remains but one Befides myself , th ' unhappy Palamon , Whom Thefeus holds in bonds , and will not free ; Without a crime , except his kin to me . Yet these , and all the reft , I cou'd endure ; But love's a malady without a cure ...
... remains but one Befides myself , th ' unhappy Palamon , Whom Thefeus holds in bonds , and will not free ; Without a crime , except his kin to me . Yet these , and all the reft , I cou'd endure ; But love's a malady without a cure ...
Sivu 35
... remains ; from Thebes my birth I own , And call myfelf th ' unhappy Palamon . Think me not like that man ; fince no difgrace Can force me to renounce the honour of my race . Know me for what I am : I broke my chain , Nor promis'd I thy ...
... remains ; from Thebes my birth I own , And call myfelf th ' unhappy Palamon . Think me not like that man ; fince no difgrace Can force me to renounce the honour of my race . Know me for what I am : I broke my chain , Nor promis'd I thy ...
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
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againſt Arcite arms Baucis and Philemon becauſe befides beſt betwixt blood breaft caft cauſe Chanticleer Chaucer cloſe cry'd Cymon dame death defire earth eaſe ev'n ev'ry eyes fafe faid fair fame fate fear feas fecond fecret feem'd feeming feen fenfe fent fhade fhall fhould fhun fide fight fince fing fire firft firſt flain flames fome foon forc'd forrow foul ftill ftood fubject fuch fure fword grace heart heav'n himſelf honour huſband Jove juft king knight laft laſt leaſt lefs loft lord lov'd maid mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf numbers nymph o'er Ovid paffion pafs Palamon Pirithous pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure poet pow'r prefent prepar'd purſue racter reaſon refolv'd reft reſt ſhall ſhe ſpeak ſpoke ſpread ſtill ſtood Synalepha Thebes thee Thefeus themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thro tranflation uſe Virgil whofe wife words wou'd youth
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Sivu xxxii - Tis true, 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; 'tis so gross and obvious an error that common sense (which is a rule in everything but matters of faith and revelation) must...
Sivu xxxi - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil...
Sivu xliii - tis in him to right Boccace. I prefer, in our countryman, far above all his other stories, the noble poem of Palamon and Arcite, which is of the epic kind, and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias, or the JEneis.
Sivu xxxv - The matter and manner of their tales and of their telling are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Sivu xxviii - Both of them built on the inventions of other men ; yet since Chaucer had something of his own, as The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part; since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners; under which name I comprehend the passions, and in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits.
Sivu xl - ... when the reason ceases for which they were enacted. As for the other part of the argument, that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty 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.
Sivu 211 - ... poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate ; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum...
Sivu xxxii - We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius, and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace; even after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being; and our numbers were in their nonage till these last appeared.
Sivu 19 - And know'st thou not, no law is made for love? Law is to things which to free choice relate; Love is not in our choice, but in our fate; Laws are but positive; love's power, we see, Is Nature's sanction, and her first decree.
Sivu 70 - Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind what happens let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend ; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.