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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... Roman Knights ; that he was born to the inheritance of a splendid fortune ; that he was designed to the study of the law , and had made considerable progress in it , before he quitted that profession for this of poetry , to which he was ...
... Roman Knights ; that he was born to the inheritance of a splendid fortune ; that he was designed to the study of the law , and had made considerable progress in it , before he quitted that profession for this of poetry , to which he was ...
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... Romans who have treated on this subject , save only Propertius , and that but once , in his epistle of Arethusa to Lycotas , which is written so near the style of Ovid , that it seems to be but an imitation , and therefore ought not to ...
... Romans who have treated on this subject , save only Propertius , and that but once , in his epistle of Arethusa to Lycotas , which is written so near the style of Ovid , that it seems to be but an imitation , and therefore ought not to ...
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... Roman poet , and the Latin hexameter has more feet than the English heroick . " I The best edition of Annibale Caro's version of the Eneid , according to Baretti , is that of Trevisa , printed in 1603 , in quarto . There are many more ...
... Roman poet , and the Latin hexameter has more feet than the English heroick . " I The best edition of Annibale Caro's version of the Eneid , according to Baretti , is that of Trevisa , printed in 1603 , in quarto . There are many more ...
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... poets in his own lan- guage , were it possible to do him right , must ap- pear above them in our tongue ; which , as my Lord Roscommon justly observes , approaches nearest to the Roman in its majesty ; nearest indeed , 34 PREFACE TO THE.
... poets in his own lan- guage , were it possible to do him right , must ap- pear above them in our tongue ; which , as my Lord Roscommon justly observes , approaches nearest to the Roman in its majesty ; nearest indeed , 34 PREFACE TO THE.
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... Roman in its majesty ; nearest indeed , but with a vast interval betwixt them . There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words , and in them principally consists that beauty , which gives so unexpressible a pleasure to him who best ...
... Roman in its majesty ; nearest indeed , but with a vast interval betwixt them . There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words , and in them principally consists that beauty , which gives so unexpressible a pleasure to him who best ...
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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 ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds...
Sida 189 - 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 long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Sida 615 - 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 636 - 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 593 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
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 581 - 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 632 - Achitophel, which he thinks is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly with his two poems, because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead: and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs.
Sida 617 - If I had desired more to please than to instruct, the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her Tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers as there are beaux and ladies of pleasure in the town.
Sida 613 - ... if 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.