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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Sivu 43
... forced to lay hold on a word or syllable : to arraign a man is one thing , and to cavil at him is another . In the midst of an ill - natured gene- ration of scribblers , there is always justice enough left in mankind , to protect good ...
... forced to lay hold on a word or syllable : to arraign a man is one thing , and to cavil at him is another . In the midst of an ill - natured gene- ration of scribblers , there is always justice enough left in mankind , to protect good ...
Sivu 57
... , was evidently a task undertaken for a pecuniary reward ; and the commission , perhaps , was procured by Mr. Aubrey , a common friend of our author and the Earl of Abingdon . siness , and many troubles , I was forced to DEDICATION ...
... , was evidently a task undertaken for a pecuniary reward ; and the commission , perhaps , was procured by Mr. Aubrey , a common friend of our author and the Earl of Abingdon . siness , and many troubles , I was forced to DEDICATION ...
Sivu 58
... forced to defer them till this time . Ovid , going to his banish- ment , and writing from on shipboard to his friends , excused the faults of his poetry by his misfortunes ; and told them , that good verses never flow , but from a ...
... forced to defer them till this time . Ovid , going to his banish- ment , and writing from on shipboard to his friends , excused the faults of his poetry by his misfortunes ; and told them , that good verses never flow , but from a ...
Sivu 90
... forced ; and be- sides , is full of conceipts , points of epigram , and witticisms ; all which are not only below the dig- nity of heroick verse , but contrary to its nature : Virgil and Homer have not one of them . And those who are ...
... forced ; and be- sides , is full of conceipts , points of epigram , and witticisms ; all which are not only below the dig- nity of heroick verse , but contrary to its nature : Virgil and Homer have not one of them . And those who are ...
Sivu 98
... forced , and comes hardly from him , at an age when the soul is most pliant , and the passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer , though not a poet . By this time , my lord , I doubt not but that you wonder , why I have run off ...
... forced , and comes hardly from him , at an age when the soul is most pliant , and the passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer , though not a poet . By this time , my lord , I doubt not but that you wonder , why I have run off ...
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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 189 - 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 chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Sivu 615 - 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 636 - 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 593 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
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 581 - 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 632 - Achitophel, which he thinks is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly with his two poems, because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead: and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs.
Sivu 617 - If I had desired more to please than to instruct, the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her Tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers as there are beaux and ladies of pleasure in the town.
Sivu 613 - ... if 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.