The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's virgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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Sida 105
... verses , than I have feen in any of the moderns , or even of the ancients : but you have been sparing of the gall ; by which means you have pleafed all readers , and offended none . Donne alone , of all our countrymen , had your talent ...
... verses , than I have feen in any of the moderns , or even of the ancients : but you have been sparing of the gall ; by which means you have pleafed all readers , and offended none . Donne alone , of all our countrymen , had your talent ...
Sida 106
... verses , that it cafts a fhadow on all your contemporaries ; we cannot be feen , or but obfcurely , while you are present . You equal Donne in the variety , multiplicity , and choice of thoughts ; you excel him in the manner , and the ...
... verses , that it cafts a fhadow on all your contemporaries ; we cannot be feen , or but obfcurely , while you are present . You equal Donne in the variety , multiplicity , and choice of thoughts ; you excel him in the manner , and the ...
Sida 115
... Verse , in his Epifodes of Sophro- nia , Erminia , and Armida ; his story is not so pleasing as Ariofto's ; he is too flatulent fometimes , and fome- times too dry ; many times unequal , and almost always forced ; and befides , is full ...
... Verse , in his Epifodes of Sophro- nia , Erminia , and Armida ; his story is not so pleasing as Ariofto's ; he is too flatulent fometimes , and fome- times too dry ; many times unequal , and almost always forced ; and befides , is full ...
Sida 118
... verse , though I may excuse him , by the example of Hannibal Caro , and other Italians , who have used it : for whatever caufes he alledges for the abo- lishing of rhyme ( which I have not now the lei fure to examine ) his own ...
... verse , though I may excuse him , by the example of Hannibal Caro , and other Italians , who have used it : for whatever caufes he alledges for the abo- lishing of rhyme ( which I have not now the lei fure to examine ) his own ...
Sida 119
... verse . I have then , as you fee , obferved the failings of many great wits amongst the moderns , who have attempted to write an Epic Poem : befides thefe , or the like ani- madverfions of them or other men , there is yet a far- ther ...
... verse . I have then , as you fee , obferved the failings of many great wits amongst the moderns , who have attempted to write an Epic Poem : befides thefe , or the like ani- madverfions of them or other men , there is yet a far- ther ...
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Sida 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words...
Sida 284 - And make the neighbouring monarchs fear their fate. He laughs at all the vulgar cares and fears ; At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears: An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned.
Sida 194 - This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice ; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice.
Sida 34 - And when, too closely press'd, she quits the ground, From her bent bow she sends a backward wound. Her maids, in martial pomp, on either side...
Sida 128 - I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it...
Sida 270 - The critic-dame, who at her table sits, Homer and Virgil quotes, and weighs their wits; And pities Dido's agonizing fits. She has so far th...
Sida 346 - Tis not, indeed, my talent to 'engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise...
Sida 105 - Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers, and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression.
Sida 193 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Sida 281 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.