Essays of John Dryden

action admirable Æneid amongst ancient Andronicus Aristophanes Aristotle Augustus Augustus Cæsar beauty better betwixt Cæsar CALIFORNIA LIBRARY called Casaubon character chief colouring comedy compass critics Dacier Decemviri discourse Dryden elegant endeavoured Eneid English Ennius epic epic poetry essay Euripides excellent expression fault favour French genius give Grecian Greek happy hero heroic Homer honour Horace imitation instructive invention Italian Juvenal kind language Latin lived Livius Andronicus Lord Lordship Lucilius Lucretius Lysippus manner master Menippus modern moral Nature never noble numbers odes opinion Ovid Pacuvius painter painting particular passage passions perfect Persius persons philosophy picture Pindar plays pleased pleasure poct poem poet poetry praise preface prose Quintilian reader reason reign Roman satire rules satirist satyrs says Scaliger Sophocles sort of verse speak style Tasso Theocritus things thought tion tragedy translation Varro vices Virgil virtue wholly words write written wrote Zeuxis