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, Količina 1 ,1. izdajaT. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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Stran vii
... true I have one privilege , " & c . which has a strong resemblance to the style of Mr. Burke . I may add , that Dr. Johnson's general character of Dryden's writings in p . xvi , - “ His works abound with knowledge , " to " intellectual ...
... true I have one privilege , " & c . which has a strong resemblance to the style of Mr. Burke . I may add , that Dr. Johnson's general character of Dryden's writings in p . xvi , - “ His works abound with knowledge , " to " intellectual ...
Stran xvii
... true : That the most learn'd with shame confess His knowledge more , his reading only less . " Of all this , however , if the proof be demanded , I will not undertake to give it ; the atoms of pro- bability , of which my opinion has ...
... true : That the most learn'd with shame confess His knowledge more , his reading only less . " Of all this , however , if the proof be demanded , I will not undertake to give it ; the atoms of pro- bability , of which my opinion has ...
Stran 7
... true one , we have now no means of discovering . The precise time , therefore , of our author's birth must still remain involved in obscurity . But though we derive no aid either from his tomb or parish - register , or the parochial ...
... true one , we have now no means of discovering . The precise time , therefore , of our author's birth must still remain involved in obscurity . But though we derive no aid either from his tomb or parish - register , or the parochial ...
Stran 26
... noblemen's sons are called noblemen . Granting for a moment that this improbable story was true , it is not very easy to discover on what ground our great animosity by his admirable poem of ABSA- LOM AND 26 THE LIFE OF 2 ...
... noblemen's sons are called noblemen . Granting for a moment that this improbable story was true , it is not very easy to discover on what ground our great animosity by his admirable poem of ABSA- LOM AND 26 THE LIFE OF 2 ...
Stran 41
... true fana- tical stamp , and one of the elect , having had possession of the Rectory of Aldwinckle All - Saints from 1647 till his death in 1657 , probably by the ejection of some honest and loyal clergyman of the church of England ...
... true fana- tical stamp , and one of the elect , having had possession of the Rectory of Aldwinckle All - Saints from 1647 till his death in 1657 , probably by the ejection of some honest and loyal clergyman of the church of England ...
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Stran 304 - And weltering in his blood; Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth exposed he lies With not a friend to close his eyes.
Stran 257 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy! — Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Stran 145 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own.
Stran x - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying; them.
Stran viii - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Stran 363 - Psalms ; whence you may find, that we don't think a poet worth Christian burial. The pomp of the ceremony was a kind of rhapsody, and fitter, I think, for Hudibras, than him; because the cavalcade was mostly burlesque : but he was an extraordinary man, and buried after an extraordinary fashion ; for I do believe there was never such another burial seen. The oration, indeed, was great and ingenious, worthy the subject, and like the author; whose prescriptions can restore the living, and his pen embalm...
Stran 140 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers...
Stran 62 - Neander, to be in company together; three of them persons whom their wit and quality have made known to all the town; and whom I have chose to hide under these borrowed names, that they may not suffer by so ill a relation as I am going to make of their discourse.
Stran 558 - ... of our especial grace, certain knowledge,- and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do...
Stran viii - DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition.