The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Volym 13William Miller, 1808 |
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... manner and the words . I read you both with the same admiration , but not with the same delight . He affects the metaphysics , not only in his satires , but in his amorous verses , where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the ...
... manner and the words . I read you both with the same admiration , but not with the same delight . He affects the metaphysics , not only in his satires , but in his amorous verses , where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the ...
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... manner , have made whole poems of mine to pass with approbation ; but take your verses altogether , and they are inimitable . If therefore I have not written better , it is because you have not written more . You have not set me ...
... manner , have made whole poems of mine to pass with approbation ; but take your verses altogether , and they are inimitable . If therefore I have not written better , it is because you have not written more . You have not set me ...
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... manners of the stage . You can banish from thence scurrility and pro- faneness , and restrain the licentious insolence of poets , and their actors , in all things that shock the public quiet , or the reputation of private persons ...
... manners of the stage . You can banish from thence scurrility and pro- faneness , and restrain the licentious insolence of poets , and their actors , in all things that shock the public quiet , or the reputation of private persons ...
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... manner of expressing them . A painter , judge- ing of some admirable piece , may affirm , with cer- tainty , that it was of Holbein , or Vandyck ; but vulgar designs , and common draughts , are easily mistaken , and misapplied . Thus ...
... manner of expressing them . A painter , judge- ing of some admirable piece , may affirm , with cer- tainty , that it was of Holbein , or Vandyck ; but vulgar designs , and common draughts , are easily mistaken , and misapplied . Thus ...
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... manner , and has provided his hero with a Patro- clus , under another name , only to bring him back to the wars , when his friend was killed . * The French have performed nothing in this kind which is not far below those two Italians ...
... manner , and has provided his hero with a Patro- clus , under another name , only to bring him back to the wars , when his friend was killed . * The French have performed nothing in this kind which is not far below those two Italians ...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volym 13 John Dryden Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1808 |
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Sida 178 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Sida 27 - Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, 19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong.
Sida 308 - Tell good Barzillai thou canst sing no more, And tell thy soul she should have fled before. Or fled she with his life, and left this verse To hang on her departed patron's hearse?
Sida 26 - And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.
Sida 27 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. 21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Sida 26 - His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Sida 399 - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.
Sida 17 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Sida 408 - The pines of Maenalus, the vocal grove, Are ever full of verse, and full of love ; They hear the hinds, they hear their god complain, Who suffered not the reeds to rise in vain.
Sida 222 - When wilt thou, mighty Jove, My wealthy uncle from this world remove...