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, Volumen3H. Baldwin and Son, New-Bridge-Street, 1800 |
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... satire on their enemies ; to give mankind their own , and to tell them plainly , that from their envy it proceeds that the virtue and great actions of women are pur- posely concealed , and the failings of some few amongst them exposed ...
... satire on their enemies ; to give mankind their own , and to tell them plainly , that from their envy it proceeds that the virtue and great actions of women are pur- posely concealed , and the failings of some few amongst them exposed ...
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... of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published John Dryden. DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGINAL AND PROGRESS OF SATIR E : FIRST PRINTED IN FOLIO , IN 1693 . : A DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGINAL AND PROGRESS OF SATIRE.
... of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published John Dryden. DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGINAL AND PROGRESS OF SATIR E : FIRST PRINTED IN FOLIO , IN 1693 . : A DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGINAL AND PROGRESS OF SATIRE.
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... SATIRE : ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES , EARL OF DORSET AND MIDDLESEX , s LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS ... Satires of Juvenal , by our author and others , p lished in gang . Of the nobleman to whom it is ad- dressed , some account ...
... SATIRE : ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES , EARL OF DORSET AND MIDDLESEX , s LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS ... Satires of Juvenal , by our author and others , p lished in gang . Of the nobleman to whom it is ad- dressed , some account ...
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... of a first dis- coverer . When I was myself in the rudiments of my poetry , without name or reputation in the world , having rather the ambition of a writer , than the skill ; when I was drawing the outlines of PROGRESS OF SATIRE . 75.
... of a first dis- coverer . When I was myself in the rudiments of my poetry , without name or reputation in the world , having rather the ambition of a writer , than the skill ; when I was drawing the outlines of PROGRESS OF SATIRE . 75.
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... satire ; and in that , an author of your own quality , whose ashes I will not disturb , has given you all the commendation , which his self- sufficiency could afford to any man : The best good man , with the worst - natured muse . In ...
... satire ; and in that , an author of your own quality , whose ashes I will not disturb , has given you all the commendation , which his self- sufficiency could afford to any man : The best good man , with the worst - natured muse . In ...
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Página 210 - 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 But wherefore all night long shine these?
Página 185 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Página 210 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 589 - 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.
Página 588 - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Página 610 - 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.
Página 569 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Página 557 - 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...
Página 606 - 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.
Página 591 - 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.