The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... to correct their faults , as he who is not only clear from any in his own writings , but also so juft , that he will never defame the good ; and is armed I 4 with with the power of verfe , to punish and make DEDICATION . 119.
... to correct their faults , as he who is not only clear from any in his own writings , but also so juft , that he will never defame the good ; and is armed I 4 with with the power of verfe , to punish and make DEDICATION . 119.
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... fatura , a Roman word , which fignifies full , and abundant , and full also of variety , in which nothing is wanting in its due perfection . It is thus , fays Dacier , that we we lay a full colour , when the wool has 148 DEDICATION .
... fatura , a Roman word , which fignifies full , and abundant , and full also of variety , in which nothing is wanting in its due perfection . It is thus , fays Dacier , that we we lay a full colour , when the wool has 148 DEDICATION .
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... also called Fefcennine , from Fefcennina , a town in the fame country , where they were first practifed . The actors , with a grofs and ruftic kind of raillery , re- proached each other with their failing ; and at the fame time were ...
... also called Fefcennine , from Fefcennina , a town in the fame country , where they were first practifed . The actors , with a grofs and ruftic kind of raillery , re- proached each other with their failing ; and at the fame time were ...
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... also used thofe Fefcennine verfes , after measure and numbers had been added to them , at the triumph of their ge- nerals of which we have an example , in the triumph of Julius Cæfar over Gaul , in thefe expreffions : Cafar Gallias ...
... also used thofe Fefcennine verfes , after measure and numbers had been added to them , at the triumph of their ge- nerals of which we have an example , in the triumph of Julius Cæfar over Gaul , in thefe expreffions : Cafar Gallias ...
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... also the manner of their writing . And how grave foever his tragedies might be , yet in his comedies he expreffed the way of Ariftophanes , Eupolis , and the reft , which was to call fome perfons by their own names , and to expofe their ...
... also the manner of their writing . And how grave foever his tragedies might be , yet in his comedies he expreffed the way of Ariftophanes , Eupolis , and the reft , which was to call fome perfons by their own names , and to expofe their ...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ... John Dryden Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1767 |
The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ... John Dryden Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1767 |
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Sida 263 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Sida 204 - ... him those manners which are familiar to us. But I defend not this innovation; it is enough if I can excuse it. For (to speak sincerely) the manners of nations and ages are not to be confounded; we should either make them English or leave them Roman.
Sida 134 - 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.
Sida 134 - King Arthur conquering the Saxons, which, being farther distant in time, gives the greater scope to my invention; or that of Edward the Black Prince, in subduing Spain, and restoring it to the lawful prince, though a great tyrant, Don Pedro the cruel...
Sida 105 - till all the matter gone The flames no more ascend; for Earth supplies...
Sida 126 - ... words may then be laudably revived, when either they are more sounding or more significant than those in practice ; and when their obscurity is taken away, by joining other words to them which clear the sense, according to the rule of Horace, for the admission of new words.
Sida 177 - Scaliger says, only shows his white teeth, he cannot provoke me to any laughter. His urbanity, that is, his good manners, are to be commended, but his wit is faint; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid.
Sida 125 - But Prince Arthur, or his chief patron Sir Philip Sidney, whom he intended to make happy by the marriage of his Gloriana, dying before him, deprived the poet both of means and spirit to accomplish his design.
Sida 281 - That all things weighs, and nothing can admire : That dares prefer the toils of Hercules To dalliance, banquet, and ignoble ease.
Sida 267 - Nothing of this ; but our old Caesar sent A noisy letter to his parliament. Nay, sirs, if Caesar writ, I ask no more ; He's guilty, and the question's out of door. How goes the mob ? (for that's a mighty thing,) When the king's trump, the mob are for the king : They follow fortune, and the common cry Is still against the rogue condemn'd to die. But the same very mob, that rascal crowd, Had cried Sejanus, with a shout as loud, Had his designs (by fortune's favour blest) Succeeded, and the prince's...