The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Acount of the Life and Writing 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, Količina 3T. Cadel, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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Stran 27
... beauty yet undiscovered by those pedants , which none but a poet could have found . Where I have taken away some of their expres- sions , and cut them shorter , it may possibly be on this consideration , —that what was beautiful in the ...
... beauty yet undiscovered by those pedants , which none but a poet could have found . Where I have taken away some of their expres- sions , and cut them shorter , it may possibly be on this consideration , —that what was beautiful in the ...
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... beauty , which gives so unexpressible a pleasure to him who best understands their force . This diction of his , I must once again say , is never to be copied ; and since it cannot , he will appear but lame in the best translation . The ...
... beauty , which gives so unexpressible a pleasure to him who best understands their force . This diction of his , I must once again say , is never to be copied ; and since it cannot , he will appear but lame in the best translation . The ...
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... beauty of the ancient buildings . But what if I venture to advance an invention of my own , to supply the manifest defect of our new writers . I am sufficiently sensible of my weakness ; and it is not very probable that I should succeed ...
... beauty of the ancient buildings . But what if I venture to advance an invention of my own , to supply the manifest defect of our new writers . I am sufficiently sensible of my weakness ; and it is not very probable that I should succeed ...
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... beauty ... Something is deficient in the manner , or the words , but more in the nobleness of our conception . Yet when you have finished all , and it appears in its full lustre , when the diamond is not only found , but the roughness ...
... beauty ... Something is deficient in the manner , or the words , but more in the nobleness of our conception . Yet when you have finished all , and it appears in its full lustre , when the diamond is not only found , but the roughness ...
Stran 115
... beauty of it without distraction . But after all these advantages , an heroick poem is certainly the greatest work of human nature . 2 In the Essay on Dramatick Poesy , our author has given the preference to tragedy , that being the ...
... beauty of it without distraction . But after all these advantages , an heroick poem is certainly the greatest work of human nature . 2 In the Essay on Dramatick Poesy , our author has given the preference to tragedy , that being the ...
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Stran 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...
Stran 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 607 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Stran 411 - And they did chide with him sharply. 2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Stran 631 - Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse as neighe as ever he can : Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he, never so rudely and so large : Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe : He may not spare, although he were his brother, He moste as wel sayn o word as an other.
Stran 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...
Stran 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.
Stran 612 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Stran 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...