The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Volume 3H. Baldwin and Son, New-Bridge-Street, 1800 |
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... epick works ; his heavenly ma- chines are many , and his human persons are but two . But I will not take Mr. Rymer's work out of his hands he has promised the world a critique on that author ; wherein , though he will not al- low his ...
... epick works ; his heavenly ma- chines are many , and his human persons are but two . But I will not take Mr. Rymer's work out of his hands he has promised the world a critique on that author ; wherein , though he will not al- low his ...
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... epick poem . Besides these , or the like animadversions of them by other men , there is yet a farther reason given , why they cannot possibly succeed so well as the ancients ; even though we could allow them × This promise our author ...
... epick poem . Besides these , or the like animadversions of them by other men , there is yet a farther reason given , why they cannot possibly succeed so well as the ancients ; even though we could allow them × This promise our author ...
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... epick poem , or the heroick action of some great commander , enterprised for the common good , and honour of the Christian cause , and executed hap- pily , may be as well written now , as it was of old by the heathens ; provided the ...
... epick poem , or the heroick action of some great commander , enterprised for the common good , and honour of the Christian cause , and executed hap- pily , may be as well written now , as it was of old by the heathens ; provided the ...
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... epick poetry . Though St. Michael in Ariosto seeks out DISCORD , to send her amongst the Pagans , and finds her in a convent of friars where peace should reign , which indeed is fine satire ; and Satan , in Tasso , excites Solyman to an ...
... epick poetry . Though St. Michael in Ariosto seeks out DISCORD , to send her amongst the Pagans , and finds her in a convent of friars where peace should reign , which indeed is fine satire ; and Satan , in Tasso , excites Solyman to an ...
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... conversant in the philosophy of Plato , as it is now accommodated to Christian use , ( for , as Virgil gives us to understand by his example , that is the only or any proper , of all others , ' for an epick PROGRESS OF SATIRE , 105.
... conversant in the philosophy of Plato , as it is now accommodated to Christian use , ( for , as Virgil gives us to understand by his example , that is the only or any proper , of all others , ' for an epick PROGRESS OF SATIRE , 105.
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Page 210 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet But wherefore all night long shine these?
Page 185 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Page 210 - 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, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 589 - Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks, and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns; 'for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
Page 588 - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Page 610 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 569 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Page 557 - What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose...
Page 606 - Achitophel, which he thinks is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly with his two poems, because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead: and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs.
Page 591 - If I had desired more to please than to instruct, the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her Tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers as there are beaux and ladies of pleasure in the town.