The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 - English literature |
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... never saw a suit of mail excepting in the Tower of London ; and on the same prin- ciple of prescriptive custom , Addison was the first poet who ven- tured to celebrate a victorious general for skill and conduct , in- stead of such feats ...
... never saw a suit of mail excepting in the Tower of London ; and on the same prin- ciple of prescriptive custom , Addison was the first poet who ven- tured to celebrate a victorious general for skill and conduct , in- stead of such feats ...
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... never allowed to repose on the scene before him ; and although the changes of fortune are too rapid to be either probable , or altogether pleasing , yet they arrest the at- tention by their splendour and importance , and interest us in ...
... never allowed to repose on the scene before him ; and although the changes of fortune are too rapid to be either probable , or altogether pleasing , yet they arrest the at- tention by their splendour and importance , and interest us in ...
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... never overcome , were but a copy of that victory , and they still fell short of their original : somewhat of for- tune was ever wanting , to fill up the title of so ab- solute a defeat ; or perhaps the guardian angel of our nation was ...
... never overcome , were but a copy of that victory , and they still fell short of their original : somewhat of for- tune was ever wanting , to fill up the title of so ab- solute a defeat ; or perhaps the guardian angel of our nation was ...
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... never be wanting to occasion . The same ardour still incites you to he- roick actions , and the same concernment for all the interests of your king and brother continues to give you restless nights , and a generous emulation for your ...
... never be wanting to occasion . The same ardour still incites you to he- roick actions , and the same concernment for all the interests of your king and brother continues to give you restless nights , and a generous emulation for your ...
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... never took the pains to examine their sense . In fine , they have succeeded ; though , it is true , they have more dishonoured rhime by their good success , than they have done by their ill . But I am willing to let fall this argument ...
... never took the pains to examine their sense . In fine , they have succeeded ; though , it is true , they have more dishonoured rhime by their good success , than they have done by their ill . But I am willing to let fall this argument ...
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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.