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, Volym 3T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... numbers , and the slavery of rhyme . It is much like dancing on ropes with fettered legs : a man may shun a fall by using caution , but the gracefulness of motion is not to be expected ; and when we have said the best of it , it is but ...
... numbers , and the slavery of rhyme . It is much like dancing on ropes with fettered legs : a man may shun a fall by using caution , but the gracefulness of motion is not to be expected ; and when we have said the best of it , it is but ...
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... number of verses with the original . Holyday had nothing in view but to shew that he understood his author , with so little regard to the grandeur of his diction , or the volubility of his numbers , that his metres can hardly be called ...
... number of verses with the original . Holyday had nothing in view but to shew that he understood his author , with so little regard to the grandeur of his diction , or the volubility of his numbers , that his metres can hardly be called ...
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... numbers ; for , though all these are exceeding difficult to perform , there yet remains an harder task ; and it is a secret of which few translators have sufficiently thought . I have already hinted a word or two concerning it ; that is ...
... numbers ; for , though all these are exceeding difficult to perform , there yet remains an harder task ; and it is a secret of which few translators have sufficiently thought . I have already hinted a word or two concerning it ; that is ...
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... numbers , have made them both so much alike , that if I did not know the originals , I should never be able to judge by the copies , which was Virgil , and which was Ovid . It was objected against a late noble painter , that he drew ...
... numbers , have made them both so much alike , that if I did not know the originals , I should never be able to judge by the copies , which was Virgil , and which was Ovid . It was objected against a late noble painter , that he drew ...
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... numbers are perpetually varied , to increase the delight of the reader ; so that the same sounds are never repeated twice together . On the contrary , Ovid and Claudian , though they write in styles different from each other , yet have ...
... numbers are perpetually varied , to increase the delight of the reader ; so that the same sounds are never repeated twice together . On the contrary , Ovid and Claudian , though they write in styles different from each other , yet have ...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now ..., Volym 3 John Dryden Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1800 |
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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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Sida 214 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Sida 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...
Sida 629 - 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.
Sida 214 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Sida 607 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Sida 187 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily 1 but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms...
Sida 650 - 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 595 - 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...
Sida 627 - 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.