The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... honoured list , and who has given proofs of greater versatility of talent than either Shakespeare or Milton , though justly pla- ced inferior to them in their peculiar pro- vinces , the Editor did not feel himself en- - VOL . I. a ...
... honoured list , and who has given proofs of greater versatility of talent than either Shakespeare or Milton , though justly pla- ced inferior to them in their peculiar pro- vinces , the Editor did not feel himself en- - VOL . I. a ...
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... honour on the age , by whose taste they were dictated . Had a selection been permitted , he would have excluded several of the Comedies , and some part of the Translations : but this is a liber- ty which has not lately been indulged to ...
... honour on the age , by whose taste they were dictated . Had a selection been permitted , he would have excluded several of the Comedies , and some part of the Translations : but this is a liber- ty which has not lately been indulged to ...
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... honoured me with a note , stating , that they are mentioned in Butler's " Tour through Italy ; " that after Butler's death , the translations pass- ed into the hands of the celebrated Dr Alban , whence they were transferred to those of ...
... honoured me with a note , stating , that they are mentioned in Butler's " Tour through Italy ; " that after Butler's death , the translations pass- ed into the hands of the celebrated Dr Alban , whence they were transferred to those of ...
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... honoured with the early notice of Charles ; * one of the most distinguished metaphysical bards , who afterwards exerted his talents of wit and satire upon the royal side , and strained his ima- gination for extravagant invective against ...
... honoured with the early notice of Charles ; * one of the most distinguished metaphysical bards , who afterwards exerted his talents of wit and satire upon the royal side , and strained his ima- gination for extravagant invective against ...
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... honoured with the friendship of the great Erasmus , who stood godfather to one of his sons . * He appears , from some passages in his will , to have entertain- ed the puritanical principles , which , we shall pre- sently find ...
... honoured with the friendship of the great Erasmus , who stood godfather to one of his sons . * He appears , from some passages in his will , to have entertain- ed the puritanical principles , which , we shall pre- sently find ...
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Page 170 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Page 169 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 311 - Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Page 313 - But, gracious God ! how well dost thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the' abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.
Page 189 - His style is boisterous and rough-hewn, his rhyme incorrigibly lewd, and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill-sounding. The little talent which he has, is fancy. He sometimes labours with a thought ; but, with the pudder he makes to bring it into the world...
Page 123 - I boldly answer him that an heroic poet is not tied to a bare representation of what is true, or exceeding probable : but that he may let himself loose to visionary objects, and to the representation of such things as, depending not on sense and therefore not to be comprehended by knowledge, may give him a freer scope for imagination.
Page 447 - Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage ; and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment.
Page 111 - Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.
Page 8 - England* began first that language; all our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court which could not parley Euphuism...
Page 473 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.