The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Acount of the Life and Writing 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, Volumen3T. Cadel, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... imitated by the heathens ; who by the light of reason knew they were to invoke some superior being in their necessities , and to thank him for his benefits . Thus the Grecian holydays were celebrated with offerings to Bacchus and Ceres ...
... imitated by the heathens ; who by the light of reason knew they were to invoke some superior being in their necessities , and to thank him for his benefits . Thus the Grecian holydays were celebrated with offerings to Bacchus and Ceres ...
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... imitated them in their rustick dances , to which they joined songs , with some sort of rude harmony , but without certain numbers ; and to these they added a kind of chorus . The Romans also , as nature is the same in all places ...
... imitated them in their rustick dances , to which they joined songs , with some sort of rude harmony , but without certain numbers ; and to these they added a kind of chorus . The Romans also , as nature is the same in all places ...
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... imitated in some of his Odes and Epodes , whose titles bear sufficient witness of it : I might also name the invective of Ovid against Ibis ; and many others . But these are the underwood of satire , rather than the timber - trees ...
... imitated in some of his Odes and Epodes , whose titles bear sufficient witness of it : I might also name the invective of Ovid against Ibis ; and many others . But these are the underwood of satire , rather than the timber - trees ...
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... , that having read the works of * Above 160 years after the death of Sophocles and Euripides , and about 52 years after the death of Me- nander . those Grecian wits , his countrymen , he imitated not 140 ON THE ORIGIN AND.
... , that having read the works of * Above 160 years after the death of Sophocles and Euripides , and about 52 years after the death of Me- nander . those Grecian wits , his countrymen , he imitated not 140 ON THE ORIGIN AND.
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... imitated not only the groundwork , but also the manner of their writing ; and how grave soever his tragedies might be , yet in his comedies he expressed the way of Aristophanes , Eupolis , and the rest , which was to call some persons ...
... imitated not only the groundwork , but also the manner of their writing ; and how grave soever his tragedies might be , yet in his comedies he expressed the way of Aristophanes , Eupolis , and the rest , which was to call some persons ...
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action admirable Æneas Æneid ÆNEIS afterwards amongst ancient appear Aristotle Augustus Augustus Cæsar beauty better betwixt Boccace Cæsar called Casaubon character Chaucer commendation confess copy criticks Dido Discourse Dryd Dryden Earl Eclogues endeavoured English Ennius epick poem errour excellent expression father fault French genius Georgick give given Grecians Greek hero heroick Homer honour Horace Iliad imitated invention judge judgment Julius Cæsar Jupiter Juvenal kind language Latin learned least lived Livius Andronicus Lord Lordship Lucian Lucilius Lucretius Lycortas manner master modern nature never noble numbers observed opinion original Ovid painter passage passions perfect Persius persons Petrarch pleased pleasure poet poetry Polybius Pope praise Preface publick reader reason Roman Rome satire Satyrs Segrais sense shew sort speak suppose Tacitus Theocritus things thought tion tragedy translation Turnus verse Virgil virtue wholly words write written
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Página 214 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Página 214 - 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.
Página 629 - 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 607 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Página 411 - And they did chide with him sharply. 2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Página 631 - Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse as neighe as ever he can : Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he, never so rudely and so large : Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe : He may not spare, although he were his brother, He moste as wel sayn o word as an other.
Página 189 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing...
Página 627 - I shall think fit hereafter, to describe another sort of Priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson; such as have given the last Blow to Christianity in this Age, by a Practice so contrary to their Doctrine.
Página 612 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Página 595 - 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...