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... pleasure on those things , which are somewhat congenial , and of a remote kindred to your own conceptions ; and to forgive the many failings of those , who , with their wretched art , cannot arrive to those heights that you possess ...
... pleasure on those things , which are somewhat congenial , and of a remote kindred to your own conceptions ; and to forgive the many failings of those , who , with their wretched art , cannot arrive to those heights that you possess ...
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... pleasure about the town . The like considerations have hindered me from dealing with the lamentable companions of their prose and dog- grel . I am so far from defending my poetry against them , that I will not so much as expose theirs ...
... pleasure about the town . The like considerations have hindered me from dealing with the lamentable companions of their prose and dog- grel . I am so far from defending my poetry against them , that I will not so much as expose theirs ...
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... pleasure , what enter- tainment , can be raised from so pitiful a machine , where we see the success of the battle from the very beginning of it ; unless that , as we are Chris- tians , we are glad that we have gotten God on our side ...
... pleasure , what enter- tainment , can be raised from so pitiful a machine , where we see the success of the battle from the very beginning of it ; unless that , as we are Chris- tians , we are glad that we have gotten God on our side ...
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... pleasure of the reader , and the episodes give it more ornament , and more variety . The instruction is equal ; but the first is only instructive , the latter forms a hero , and a prince . If it signifies any thing which of them is of ...
... pleasure of the reader , and the episodes give it more ornament , and more variety . The instruction is equal ; but the first is only instructive , the latter forms a hero , and a prince . If it signifies any thing which of them is of ...
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... pleasure . This , as I said , is my particular taste of these two authors : they who will have either of them to excel the other in both qualities , can scarce give better reasons for their opinion than I for mine . But all unbiassed ...
... pleasure . This , as I said , is my particular taste of these two authors : they who will have either of them to excel the other in both qualities , can scarce give better reasons for their opinion than I for mine . But all unbiassed ...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volym 13 John Dryden,Walter Scott Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1821 |
The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volym 13 John Dryden,Walter Scott Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1821 |
The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes ..., Volym 18 John Dryden Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2021 |
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Sida 26 - Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
Sida 178 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
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 - And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
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 102 - Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
Sida 95 - ... railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own work more happily, perhaps more dexterously. I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies ; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious.
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 386 - The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, Renews its finished course : Saturnian times Roll round again ; and mighty years, begun From their first orb, in radiant circles run. The base degenerate iron offspring ends : A golden progeny from heaven descends.