The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... church were recovered , by the fa- vour of Captain MacDonogh of the Inver- ness Militia . * As the first edition of the work was then printed off , they were insert- ed in the Life of the Author ; but in the present impression they are ...
... church were recovered , by the fa- vour of Captain MacDonogh of the Inver- ness Militia . * As the first edition of the work was then printed off , they were insert- ed in the Life of the Author ; but in the present impression they are ...
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... church , the sparrows of the spirit , and the sweet swallows of salvation . " — " Which way of preaching , ” says Anthony Wood , the reporter of the homily , " was then mostly in fashion , and commended by the generality of scho- lars ...
... church , the sparrows of the spirit , and the sweet swallows of salvation . " — " Which way of preaching , ” says Anthony Wood , the reporter of the homily , " was then mostly in fashion , and commended by the generality of scho- lars ...
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... Church History , tells the following anecdote : - " A few days before the fatal blow should have been given , Keies , being at Tichmarsh , in Northamptonshire , at his brother - in- law's house , Mr Gilbert Pickering , a Protestant , he ...
... Church History , tells the following anecdote : - " A few days before the fatal blow should have been given , Keies , being at Tichmarsh , in Northamptonshire , at his brother - in- law's house , Mr Gilbert Pickering , a Protestant , he ...
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... erected by Elizabeth Creed to the poet's memory in the church at Tichmarsh , are these words : " We boast that he was bred and had his first learning here . " old preceptor . It may be readily supposed , that. LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN . 27.
... erected by Elizabeth Creed to the poet's memory in the church at Tichmarsh , are these words : " We boast that he was bred and had his first learning here . " old preceptor . It may be readily supposed , that. LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN . 27.
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... his house ( Canons Ashby ) being an ancient college , where he possessed the church , and abused most part of it to profane uses : the chancel he turned nephew might reasonably hope to attain prefer- ment . In LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN . 37.
... his house ( Canons Ashby ) being an ancient college , where he possessed the church , and abused most part of it to profane uses : the chancel he turned nephew might reasonably hope to attain prefer- ment . In LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN . 37.
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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.