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, Volumen1,Tema 1T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... observations of Dr. Johnson , which contain so judicious an account of the pieces comprised in these volumes , that not to prefix them to this Collection of his Prose Works , would be great injustice to our author . " Dryden may be ...
... observations of Dr. Johnson , which contain so judicious an account of the pieces comprised in these volumes , that not to prefix them to this Collection of his Prose Works , would be great injustice to our author . " Dryden may be ...
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... observations ; he poured out his knowledge with great liberality , and seldom published any work without a critical dissertation , by which he increased the book and the price , with little labour to himself ; for of labour , not ...
... observations ; he poured out his knowledge with great liberality , and seldom published any work without a critical dissertation , by which he increased the book and the price , with little labour to himself ; for of labour , not ...
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... observe that the information furnished by tombstones is by no means implicitly to be relied on , and before this narra- tive is concluded , more than one instance will be given of their inaccuracy ; —and further , that for the date men ...
... observe that the information furnished by tombstones is by no means implicitly to be relied on , and before this narra- tive is concluded , more than one instance will be given of their inaccuracy ; —and further , that for the date men ...
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... observed , that when Pope appeared at the Bar of the House of Lords , on the trial of Atterbury , " he had but few words to say , and in those few he made several blunders . " In his statement of this short inscrip- tion we find no less ...
... observed , that when Pope appeared at the Bar of the House of Lords , on the trial of Atterbury , " he had but few words to say , and in those few he made several blunders . " In his statement of this short inscrip- tion we find no less ...
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... observe , among the contributors to this collection , the names of Ralph Bathurst , of Trinity College , and Robert South and John Locke , of Christ- church . Locke ( at this time near twenty - two years old , ) paid his homage in a ...
... observe , among the contributors to this collection , the names of Ralph Bathurst , of Trinity College , and Robert South and John Locke , of Christ- church . Locke ( at this time near twenty - two years old , ) paid his homage in a ...
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Página 392 - He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página xviii - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous : what is little is gay; what is great is splendid.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 154 - One day as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, ' If I was a poet, (and I think I am poor enough to be one,) I would write a poem on such a subject in the following manner,' and then gave him the plan for it.
Página 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...
Página 48 - Had we still paid that homage to a name, Which only God and nature justly claim ; The western seas had been our utmost bound, Where poets still might dream the sun was drowned; And all the stars, that shine in southern skies, Had been admired by none but savage eyes.