The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...H. Baldwin and Son, 1800 |
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Stran 74
... Criticks in Coffee - houses , or in his letters to his bookseller , or when he was decried and run down by his adversaries , that he considered it necessary to keep up a proper port , and not to abate a jot of his poetical pretensions ...
... Criticks in Coffee - houses , or in his letters to his bookseller , or when he was decried and run down by his adversaries , that he considered it necessary to keep up a proper port , and not to abate a jot of his poetical pretensions ...
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... criticks are charitable to what I thought , and still think , of it myself . ' Tis so far from me to believe this perfect , that I am apt to conclude our best plays are scarcely so ; for the stage being the representation of the world ...
... criticks are charitable to what I thought , and still think , of it myself . ' Tis so far from me to believe this perfect , that I am apt to conclude our best plays are scarcely so ; for the stage being the representation of the world ...
Stran 33
... more indebted to the Spanish Criticks , than to the writers of any other nation . * June 3 , 1665 . • James , duke of York , afterwards James II . VOL . I. D ears about the city , so that all men being AN ESSAY ESSAY OF DRAMATICK POESY 33.
... more indebted to the Spanish Criticks , than to the writers of any other nation . * June 3 , 1665 . • James , duke of York , afterwards James II . VOL . I. D ears about the city , so that all men being AN ESSAY ESSAY OF DRAMATICK POESY 33.
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... criticks limit from the same period , as here rightly stated ; and Ben Jonson in 1637 , only twenty - eight years from 1665 , the supposed era of the dialogue . Pierre Corneille was born in June , 1606 , and pro- duced his first play ...
... criticks limit from the same period , as here rightly stated ; and Ben Jonson in 1637 , only twenty - eight years from 1665 , the supposed era of the dialogue . Pierre Corneille was born in June , 1606 , and pro- duced his first play ...
Stran 104
... and all delightful . As first , Morosc , or an old man , to whom all noise but his own talking is offensive . * Sir Samuel Tuke's play , already mentioned . Some who would be thought criticks , say this humour 104 ON DRAMATICK POESY .
... and all delightful . As first , Morosc , or an old man , to whom all noise but his own talking is offensive . * Sir Samuel Tuke's play , already mentioned . Some who would be thought criticks , say this humour 104 ON DRAMATICK POESY .
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Stran 95 - 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 99 - He was deeply conversant in the ancients, both Greek and Latin, and he borrowed boldly from them : there is scarce a poet or historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he has not translated in Sejanus and Catiline. But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Stran 38 - Crites himself did not much oppose it: and every one was willing to acknowledge how much our poesy is improved, by the happiness of some writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make our rhyme so properly a part of the verse, that it should never mislead the sense, but itself be led and governed by it.
Stran 193 - Witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age. I suppose I need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the historical plays of Shakespeare : besides many of the rest, as the Winter's Tale, Love's Labour Lost, Measure for Measure...
Stran 142 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Stran 242 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her.
Stran 66 - ... stuffs; and two actions, that is, two plays, carried on together, to the confounding of the audience; who, before they are warm in their concernments for one part, are diverted to another; and by that means espouse the interest of neither.
Stran 30 - 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 122 - I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing betwixt what is nearest to the nature of comedy, — which is the imitation of common persons and ordinary speaking, — and what is nearest the nature of a serious play. "This last is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch.
Stran 211 - The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force, by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety...