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... Seneca ; and the only line which remains of Ovid's play , for one line is left us , is not there to be found . There was therefore no need of the gravity of conjecture , or the discussion of plot or sentiment , to find ADVERTISEMENT . XY.
... Seneca ; and the only line which remains of Ovid's play , for one line is left us , is not there to be found . There was therefore no need of the gravity of conjecture , or the discussion of plot or sentiment , to find ADVERTISEMENT . XY.
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... play of images and the sprightliness of expression . Though all is easy , nothing is feeble ; though all seems ... plays . " - Spence's ANEC- DOTES . manner ; such a recurrence of particular modes as may xviii ADVERTISEMENT .
... play of images and the sprightliness of expression . Though all is easy , nothing is feeble ; though all seems ... plays . " - Spence's ANEC- DOTES . manner ; such a recurrence of particular modes as may xviii ADVERTISEMENT .
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... plays , when dramatick productions were not permitted to be exhibited , or , to use our author's words , " when ... play I undertook was THE DUKE OF GUISE , as the fairest way which the Act of Indemnity had then left us of setting ...
... plays , when dramatick productions were not permitted to be exhibited , or , to use our author's words , " when ... play I undertook was THE DUKE OF GUISE , as the fairest way which the Act of Indemnity had then left us of setting ...
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... plays were first exhi- bited ; but the lists which these papers furnish , do not contain any of Dryden's pieces , at least by name ... play denote that the theatres had been opened for some time before its production , and that dramatick ...
... plays were first exhi- bited ; but the lists which these papers furnish , do not contain any of Dryden's pieces , at least by name ... play denote that the theatres had been opened for some time before its production , and that dramatick ...
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... play , which he acknowledges was very ill received , and would have been driven from the scene , if this admired beauty had not by her favour and applause given " new life to his condemn'd and dying muse . " It was , however , he tells ...
... play , which he acknowledges was very ill received , and would have been driven from the scene , if this admired beauty had not by her favour and applause given " new life to his condemn'd and dying muse . " It was , however , he tells ...
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Page xviii - 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.
Page 143 - 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 ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Page 390 - 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?
Page 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...
Page 479 - ... out of the country with one : however, in spite of my bashfulness and appearance, I used now and then to thrust myself into Will's, to have the pleasure of seeing the most celebrated wits of that time, who used to resort thither.
Page 134 - I have sent you herewith a libel, in which my own share is not the least. The king having perused it, is no way dissatisfied with his. The author is apparently Mr Dr[yden], his patron, Lord M[ulgrave,] having a panegyric in the midst.
Page x - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
Page 179 - Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler ; but neither of them had the happiness to live till your Lordship's ministry.
Page 150 - tis for parents to forgive! With how few tears a pardon might be won From nature, pleading for a darling son!
Page 460 - He was of very easy, I may say, of very pleasing access ; but something slow, and, as it were, diffident in his advances to others. He had something in his nature, that abhorred intrusion into any society whatsoever.