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, Volume 1, Issue 1T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 - English prose literature |
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... composed in his time on verses on our Saviour's miracle in turning water into wine , being prescribed as an exercise , Dryden brought up the following single line : 66 Lympha pudica DEUM vidit , et erubuit . " But he certainly has no ...
... composed in his time on verses on our Saviour's miracle in turning water into wine , being prescribed as an exercise , Dryden brought up the following single line : 66 Lympha pudica DEUM vidit , et erubuit . " But he certainly has no ...
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... composed two plays in each year ; and Fletcher , in the last ten years of his life , ap- pears to have furnished the scene with more than thirty dramas , in some of which , however , he was assisted by Massinger , Rowley , and other ...
... composed two plays in each year ; and Fletcher , in the last ten years of his life , ap- pears to have furnished the scene with more than thirty dramas , in some of which , however , he was assisted by Massinger , Rowley , and other ...
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... composed a poem on the crusade of Richard the First , appears to have been the royal poet of that time ; and Robert Baston , whom Bale calls poeta Oxonii laureatus , and whom Edward the Second is said to have carried with him to the ...
... composed a poem on the crusade of Richard the First , appears to have been the royal poet of that time ; and Robert Baston , whom Bale calls poeta Oxonii laureatus , and whom Edward the Second is said to have carried with him to the ...
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... composed an Essay on the Laws of Versifi- cation , which it is much to be regretted that Lord Mulgrave dissuaded him from publishing . About that period , therefore , we may presume he attained all the mechanick excellence of English ...
... composed an Essay on the Laws of Versifi- cation , which it is much to be regretted that Lord Mulgrave dissuaded him from publishing . About that period , therefore , we may presume he attained all the mechanick excellence of English ...
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... composed of the productions of others . This was the first collection of that kind which had appeared for many years in England . Some months afterwards he again re- verted to politicks , by publishing THE HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE ...
... composed of the productions of others . This was the first collection of that kind which had appeared for many years in England . Some months afterwards he again re- verted to politicks , by publishing THE HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
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 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 363 - Psalms ; whence you may find, that we don't think a poet worth Christian burial. The pomp of the ceremony was a kind of rhapsody, and fitter, I think, for Hudibras, than him; because the cavalcade was mostly burlesque : but he was an extraordinary man, and buried after an extraordinary fashion ; for I do believe there was never such another burial seen. The oration, indeed, was great and ingenious, worthy the subject, and like the author; whose prescriptions can restore the living, and his pen embalm...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 558 - ... of our especial grace, certain knowledge,- and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do...
Page viii - DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition.