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 ,2. izdajaT. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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Stran 32
... humour , will they not give it ; and to whom , when they are froward , will they not refuse it ? Reputa- tion with them depends upon chance , unless they are guided by those above them . They are but the keepers , as it were , of the ...
... humour , will they not give it ; and to whom , when they are froward , will they not refuse it ? Reputa- tion with them depends upon chance , unless they are guided by those above them . They are but the keepers , as it were , of the ...
Stran 83
... humour and pas- sions and this Lisideius himself , or any other , however biassed to their party , cannot but acknow- ledge , if he will either compare the humours of our comedies , or the characters of our serious plays , with theirs ...
... humour and pas- sions and this Lisideius himself , or any other , however biassed to their party , cannot but acknow- ledge , if he will either compare the humours of our comedies , or the characters of our serious plays , with theirs ...
Stran 84
... humour ; he tells you himself , his way is , first to shew two lovers in good intelligence with each other ; in the working up of the play to embroil them by some mistake , and in the latter end to clear it , and reconcile them . But of ...
... humour ; he tells you himself , his way is , first to shew two lovers in good intelligence with each other ; in the working up of the play to embroil them by some mistake , and in the latter end to clear it , and reconcile them . But of ...
Stran 85
... humour , and to enjoy it with any relish : but why should he imagine the soul of man more heavy than his senses ? Does not the eye pass from an unpleasant object to a pleasant in a much shorter time than is required to this ? and does ...
... humour , and to enjoy it with any relish : but why should he imagine the soul of man more heavy than his senses ? Does not the eye pass from an unpleasant object to a pleasant in a much shorter time than is required to this ? and does ...
Stran 92
... HUMOUR , to which , I suppose , our author here alludes . 66 64 Mit . He cannot alter the scene without crossing the seas . " Cor . He need not , having a whole island to run through , I thinke . " Mit . No ! how comes it then that in ...
... HUMOUR , to which , I suppose , our author here alludes . 66 64 Mit . He cannot alter the scene without crossing the seas . " Cor . He need not , having a whole island to run through , I thinke . " Mit . No ! how comes it then that in ...
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Stran 99 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Stran 102 - As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages) , I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
Stran 282 - ... saw before him. He knew that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity. Characters thus ample and general were not easily discriminated and preserved; yet perhaps no poet ever kept his personages more distinct from each other. I will not say with Pope, that every speech may be assigned to the proper speaker...
Stran 181 - Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
Stran 85 - A continued gravity keeps the spirit too much bent; we must refresh it sometimes, as we bait in a journey, that we may go on with greater ease.
Stran 101 - Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better ; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe ; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love.
Stran 294 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. DUCH. Alas, poor Richard! where rides he the whilst? YORK. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Stran 82 - But, like a ball of fire, the further thrown, Still with a greater blaze she shone, And her bright soul broke out on every side.
Stran 32 - The drift of the ensuing discourse is chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them. This I intimate, lest any should think me so exceeding vain, as to teach others an art, which they understand much better than myself.
Stran 44 - ... every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies: the work then being pushed on by many hands, must of necessity go forward.