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 2T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... lady to whom this letter is addressed , was our author's first cousin ; one of the daughters of his uncle , Sir John ... lady's age , ( for in 1645 , she was probably not more than eight years old , ) . but from the time of oùr author's ...
... lady to whom this letter is addressed , was our author's first cousin ; one of the daughters of his uncle , Sir John ... lady's age , ( for in 1645 , she was probably not more than eight years old , ) . but from the time of oùr author's ...
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... lady whom he deceived , was an actress belonging to the Duke of York's company of comedians , who , he says , was celebrated in the part of Roxana [ in THE RIVAL QUEENS ] ; but three other authors of Scan- for our players , when they ...
... lady whom he deceived , was an actress belonging to the Duke of York's company of comedians , who , he says , was celebrated in the part of Roxana [ in THE RIVAL QUEENS ] ; but three other authors of Scan- for our players , when they ...
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... Lady Elizabeth Dry- den , about the same time with the above . HONNORED SIR , . Ascension Day , [ 1682. ] I HOPE I need use noe other argument to you in ex- cuse of my sonn for not coming to church to Westmin- ster then this , that he ...
... Lady Elizabeth Dry- den , about the same time with the above . HONNORED SIR , . Ascension Day , [ 1682. ] I HOPE I need use noe other argument to you in ex- cuse of my sonn for not coming to church to Westmin- ster then this , that he ...
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... Lady Mac- clesfield must have a place , if I can possibly : and Will Plowden shall pay you in three guinneys , if I can obtain so much favour from you . I desire 8 • Among the subscribers to the plates , one of which the author wished ...
... Lady Mac- clesfield must have a place , if I can possibly : and Will Plowden shall pay you in three guinneys , if I can obtain so much favour from you . I desire 8 • Among the subscribers to the plates , one of which the author wished ...
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... Lady Elizabeth Dryden's copy of the first part of his Miscellany , published in 1684 , which con- tained a translation of the Eclogues of Virgil . * This person in the last age was frequently called " the learned tradesman . " - " Sir ...
... Lady Elizabeth Dryden's copy of the first part of his Miscellany , published in 1684 , which con- tained a translation of the Eclogues of Virgil . * This person in the last age was frequently called " the learned tradesman . " - " Sir ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.