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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... sometimes proceed to acknowledge affection , by the very same degrees by which a lover declares his passion . This last at first confesses esteem , yet owns no passion but admiration . But as soon as he is animated by one kind ...
... sometimes proceed to acknowledge affection , by the very same degrees by which a lover declares his passion . This last at first confesses esteem , yet owns no passion but admiration . But as soon as he is animated by one kind ...
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... sometimes with Ovid , and sometimes with our old English poet , Chaucer ; translateing such stories as best please my fancy ; and intend besides them to add somewhat of my own : so that it is not impos- sible , but ere the summer be ...
... sometimes with Ovid , and sometimes with our old English poet , Chaucer ; translateing such stories as best please my fancy ; and intend besides them to add somewhat of my own : so that it is not impos- sible , but ere the summer be ...
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... sometimes spells his kinswoman's name Steward , and at others . Stewart . I have followed the former mode , her husband's name being so written in the London Gazette , when he was appointed Sheriff of the county of Northampton ; and Mrs ...
... sometimes spells his kinswoman's name Steward , and at others . Stewart . I have followed the former mode , her husband's name being so written in the London Gazette , when he was appointed Sheriff of the county of Northampton ; and Mrs ...
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... ' Rise , honest Muse ! and sing the Man of Ross . " Pope had diligently read the STATE POEMS , and may be sometimes traced in them . Thus , " Peace is my dear Besides , he lately bribed , in breach of laws DRYDEN'S LETTERS . 125.
... ' Rise , honest Muse ! and sing the Man of Ross . " Pope had diligently read the STATE POEMS , and may be sometimes traced in them . Thus , " Peace is my dear Besides , he lately bribed , in breach of laws DRYDEN'S LETTERS . 125.
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... sometimes to err , who undertakes to move so many characters and humours as are requisite in a play , in those narrow channels which are proper to each of them : to conduct his imagi- nary persons through so many various intrigues and ...
... sometimes to err , who undertakes to move so many characters and humours as are requisite in a play , in those narrow channels which are proper to each of them : to conduct his imagi- nary persons through so many various intrigues and ...
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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...