The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 - English literature |
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... nature fled , And in the heap of common rubbish laid , Of things that once have been , and now decayed . In the less inflated parts , the ideas are usually as just , as ingenious and beautiful ; for example . No ; there is a necessity ...
... nature fled , And in the heap of common rubbish laid , Of things that once have been , and now decayed . In the less inflated parts , the ideas are usually as just , as ingenious and beautiful ; for example . No ; there is a necessity ...
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... natural and decisive superiority over untaught strength , and enthusiastic valour . But the memory of what had been , was still familiar to the popular mind , and preserved not only by numerous legends and traditions , but also by the ...
... natural and decisive superiority over untaught strength , and enthusiastic valour . But the memory of what had been , was still familiar to the popular mind , and preserved not only by numerous legends and traditions , but also by the ...
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... nature fled , And in the heap of common rubbish laid , Of things that once have been , and now decayed . In the less inflated parts , the ideas are usually as just , as inge- nious and beautiful ; for example . No ; there is a necessity ...
... nature fled , And in the heap of common rubbish laid , Of things that once have been , and now decayed . In the less inflated parts , the ideas are usually as just , as inge- nious and beautiful ; for example . No ; there is a necessity ...
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... nature , an easiness to forgive his conquered enemies , and to protect them in dis- tress ; and , above all , an inviolable faith in his af fection . This , sir , I have briefly shadowed to your royal highness , that you may not be ...
... nature , an easiness to forgive his conquered enemies , and to protect them in dis- tress ; and , above all , an inviolable faith in his af fection . This , sir , I have briefly shadowed to your royal highness , that you may not be ...
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... natural . But it is very clear to all who understand poetry , that serious plays ought not to imitate conversation too nearly . If nothing were to be raised above that level , the foundation of poetry would be destroyed . And if you ...
... natural . But it is very clear to all who understand poetry , that serious plays ought not to imitate conversation too nearly . If nothing were to be raised above that level , the foundation of poetry would be destroyed . And if you ...
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Page 34 - But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 107 - As scriv'ners draw away the bankers' trade. Howe'er, the poet 's safe enough to-day, They cannot censure an unfinish'd play. But, as when vizard-mask appears in pit, Straight every man who thinks himself a wit Perks up, and, managing his comb with grace, With his white wig sets off his nut-brown face...
Page 221 - The desire of imitating so great a pattern, first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation ; and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse.
Page 216 - He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
Page 209 - Witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age.
Page 53 - ... less." In return for such proofs of tenderness as these, her admirer consents to murder his two sons and a benefactor to whom he feels the warmest gratitude. Lyndaraxa, in the Conquest of Granada, assumes the same lofty tone with Abdelmelech.
Page 10 - You have lost that which you call natural, and have not acquired the last perfection of art.
Page 228 - ... the ground, as if she were sinking under the conscious load of her own attractions ; then launches into a flood of fine language and compliment, still playing her chest forward in fifty falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water ; and, to complete her impertinence, she is so rapidly fond of her own wit, that she will not give her lover leave to praise it : silent, assenting bows, and vain endeavours to speak, are all the share of the conversation he is admitted to, which, at last, he is...
Page 114 - Love's an heroic passion, which can find No room in any base degenerate mind : It kindles all the soul with honour's fire, To make the lover worthy his desire.