The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations, Volume 1, Part 2Cadell and Davies, 1800 - 596 pages |
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... Oxford , in 1669 or 1670 , three or four years before this letter was written , ( 1673 , ) and being then in his possession , this adventure , and his attachment - Your Lordship will judge how easy ' tis to pass 12 DRYDEN'S LETTERS .
... Oxford , in 1669 or 1670 , three or four years before this letter was written , ( 1673 , ) and being then in his possession , this adventure , and his attachment - Your Lordship will judge how easy ' tis to pass 12 DRYDEN'S LETTERS .
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... pass any thing upon an University , and how gross flattery the learned will endure . If your Lordship had been in town , and I in the country , I durst not have entertained you with three pages of a letter ; but I know they are very ill ...
... pass any thing upon an University , and how gross flattery the learned will endure . If your Lordship had been in town , and I in the country , I durst not have entertained you with three pages of a letter ; but I know they are very ill ...
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... passes from the second speaker to the third or more , till dinner is over . Who- ever is then Custos , has an imposition . It is highly probable , ( adds the very respectable gentle- man to whom I am indebted for this information ...
... passes from the second speaker to the third or more , till dinner is over . Who- ever is then Custos , has an imposition . It is highly probable , ( adds the very respectable gentle- man to whom I am indebted for this information ...
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... pass'd , but that I do not find myself capable of translating so great an authour , and therefore feare to lose my own credit , and to hazard your profit , which it wou'd grieve me if you shoud loose , by your too good opi- nion of my ...
... pass'd , but that I do not find myself capable of translating so great an authour , and therefore feare to lose my own credit , and to hazard your profit , which it wou'd grieve me if you shoud loose , by your too good opi- nion of my ...
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... pass for our desert . And now you are pleas'd to invite another trouble on your self , which our bad company may possibly draw upon you next year , if I have life and health to come into Northamptonshyre ; and that you will please not ...
... pass for our desert . And now you are pleas'd to invite another trouble on your self , which our bad company may possibly draw upon you next year , if I have life and health to come into Northamptonshyre ; and that you will please not ...
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Page 83 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Page 110 - This last is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility.
Page 83 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets *Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
Page 266 - ... saw before him. He knew that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity. Characters thus ample and general were not easily discriminated and preserved; yet perhaps no poet ever kept his personages more distinct from each other. I will not say with Pope, that every speech may be assigned to the proper speaker...
Page 29 - ... almost a new nature has been revealed to us ? that more errors of the school have been detected, more useful experiments in philosophy have been made, more noble secrets in optics, medicine, anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us ? — so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science, when rightly and generally cultivated.
Page 16 - Ne pueros coram populo Medea trucidet, Aut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus, Aut in avem Progne vertatur, Cadmus in anguem. Quodcunque ostendis mihi sic , incredulus odi.
Page 86 - One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter. Wit and language, and humour also, in some measure, we had before him ; but something of art was wanting to the drama till he came.
Page 278 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. DUCH. Alas, poor Richard! where rides he the whilst? YORK. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 147 - Our language is noble, full, and significant, and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words.
Page 166 - Pontus ; we know that there is neither war nor preparation for war; we know that we are neither in Rome nor Pontus, that neither Mithridates nor Lucullus are before us. The drama exhibits successive imitations of successive actions, and why may not the second imitation represent an action that happened years after the first if it be so connected with it that nothing but time can be supposed to intervene ? Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is...