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 3T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... perfect piece of Ovid , and that the style of them is tenderly passionate and courtly ; two properties well agreeing with the persons , which were heroines , and lovers . Yet where the cha- racters were lower , as in Enone , and Hero ...
... perfect piece of Ovid , and that the style of them is tenderly passionate and courtly ; two properties well agreeing with the persons , which were heroines , and lovers . Yet where the cha- racters were lower , as in Enone , and Hero ...
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... perfect in their kind than even his divine Æneids . The turn of his verse he has likewise followed , in those places which Lucretius has most laboured , and some of his very lines he has transplanted into his own works , without much ...
... perfect in their kind than even his divine Æneids . The turn of his verse he has likewise followed , in those places which Lucretius has most laboured , and some of his very lines he has transplanted into his own works , without much ...
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... SOPHY being published pre- cisely at the period of the Irish Rebellion's breaking out , appropriates the remark , and shews that it was made on Denham . been very perfect without it . I may be suffered WALSH'S DIALOGUE . 55.
... SOPHY being published pre- cisely at the period of the Irish Rebellion's breaking out , appropriates the remark , and shews that it was made on Denham . been very perfect without it . I may be suffered WALSH'S DIALOGUE . 55.
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... perfect without it . I may be suffered . to please myself with the kindness of my friend , without valuing myself upon his partiality : he had not confidence enough to send it out into the world without my opinion of it , that it might ...
... perfect without it . I may be suffered . to please myself with the kindness of my friend , without valuing myself upon his partiality : he had not confidence enough to send it out into the world without my opinion of it , that it might ...
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... perfect . The late Earl of Dorset was indeed a great exception to this rule ; for he had thoughts which no book could lend him , and a way of expressing them , which no man ever knew how to prescribe . " Macky observes in his CHARACTERS ...
... perfect . The late Earl of Dorset was indeed a great exception to this rule ; for he had thoughts which no book could lend him , and a way of expressing them , which no man ever knew how to prescribe . " Macky observes in his CHARACTERS ...
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Page 214 - 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 214 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 629 - 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 214 - 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.
Page 607 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Page 187 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily 1 but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms...
Page 650 - 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 189 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing...
Page 595 - 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 627 - I shall think fit hereafter, to describe another sort of Priests, such as are more easily to be found than the Good Parson; such as have given the last Blow to Christianity in this Age, by a Practice so contrary to their Doctrine.