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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... whole con- texture of them , that Corinna was not a woman of the highest quality . If Julia were then married to Agrippa , why should our poet make his petition to Isis , for her safe delivery , and afterwards condole her miscarriage ...
... whole con- texture of them , that Corinna was not a woman of the highest quality . If Julia were then married to Agrippa , why should our poet make his petition to Isis , for her safe delivery , and afterwards condole her miscarriage ...
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... whole . I cannot without some indignation look on an ill copy of an excellent original : much less can I behold with patience Virgil , Homer , and some others , whose beauties I have been endeavouring all my life to imitate , so abused ...
... whole . I cannot without some indignation look on an ill copy of an excellent original : much less can I behold with patience Virgil , Homer , and some others , whose beauties I have been endeavouring all my life to imitate , so abused ...
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... whole together , whether it be good or not ; and where the beauties are more than the faults , concludes for the poet against the little judge . It is a sign that malice is hard driven , when it is forced to lay hold on a word or ...
... whole together , whether it be good or not ; and where the beauties are more than the faults , concludes for the poet against the little judge . It is a sign that malice is hard driven , when it is forced to lay hold on a word or ...
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... whole poem . I take more liberty , because it best suited with my design , which was to make him as pleasing as I could . He had been too voluminous , had he used my method in so long a work ; and I had certainly taken his , had I made ...
... whole poem . I take more liberty , because it best suited with my design , which was to make him as pleasing as I could . He had been too voluminous , had he used my method in so long a work ; and I had certainly taken his , had I made ...
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... whole poem , though written in that which they call he- roick verse , is of the Pindarick nature , as well in the thought as the expression ; and as such , re- quires the same grains of allowance for it . It was intended , as your ...
... whole poem , though written in that which they call he- roick verse , is of the Pindarick nature , as well in the thought as the expression ; and as such , re- quires the same grains of allowance for it . It was intended , as your ...
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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.