The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... poet naturally falls into the ftory of the Trojan war , which is fummed up , in the prefent book , but fo very briefly , in many places , that Ovid feems more fhort than Virgil , contrary to his ufual Style . Yet the House of Fame ...
... poet naturally falls into the ftory of the Trojan war , which is fummed up , in the prefent book , but fo very briefly , in many places , that Ovid feems more fhort than Virgil , contrary to his ufual Style . Yet the House of Fame ...
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... Poetry ; and there- in bespoke you to the world , wherein I have the right of a first discoverer . When I was myself , in the ru diments of my Poetry , without name or reputation in the world , having rather the ambition of a writer ...
... Poetry ; and there- in bespoke you to the world , wherein I have the right of a first discoverer . When I was myself , in the ru diments of my Poetry , without name or reputation in the world , having rather the ambition of a writer ...
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... Poetry , the greatest ge- nius , the trueft judge , and the best patron . Good fenfe and good nature are never feparated , though the ignorant world has thought otherwise . Good nature , by which I mean beneficence and can- dor , is the ...
... Poetry , the greatest ge- nius , the trueft judge , and the best patron . Good fenfe and good nature are never feparated , though the ignorant world has thought otherwise . Good nature , by which I mean beneficence and can- dor , is the ...
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... poet , we would thank you for our own quiet , and not expose you to the want of yours . But when you are fo great and fo fuccefsful , and when we have that neceffity of your writing , that we cannot fubfift intirely without it ; any ...
... poet , we would thank you for our own quiet , and not expose you to the want of yours . But when you are fo great and fo fuccefsful , and when we have that neceffity of your writing , that we cannot fubfift intirely without it ; any ...
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... Poetry against them , that I will not fo much as expofe theirs . And for my morals , if they are not proof against their attacks , let me be thought by pofterity , what thofe authors would be thought , if any memory of them , or of ...
... Poetry against them , that I will not fo much as expofe theirs . And for my morals , if they are not proof against their attacks , let me be thought by pofterity , what thofe authors would be thought , if any memory of them , or of ...
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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 |
The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His ..., Volym 4 John Dryden Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1760 |
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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...