The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations, Volume 3Cadell and Davies, 1800 - 662 pages |
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... means which will naturally conduct him to his end . This will be evident to judicious readers in this work of his Epistles , of which somewhat , at least in general , will be expected . The title of them in our late editions is EPISTOLÆ ...
... means which will naturally conduct him to his end . This will be evident to judicious readers in this work of his Epistles , of which somewhat , at least in general , will be expected . The title of them in our late editions is EPISTOLÆ ...
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... mean as to our understanding , ) to soar out of sight , and leave his reader at a gaze . So wild and ungovernable a poet cannot be translated literally ; his genius is too strong to bear a chain , and Sampson - like he shakes it off . A ...
... mean as to our understanding , ) to soar out of sight , and leave his reader at a gaze . So wild and ungovernable a poet cannot be translated literally ; his genius is too strong to bear a chain , and Sampson - like he shakes it off . A ...
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... mean betwixt them , it will be seen how far his argument will reach . No man is capable of translating poetry , who besides a genius to that art , is not a master both of his author's language , and of his own . Nor must , we understand ...
... mean betwixt them , it will be seen how far his argument will reach . No man is capable of translating poetry , who besides a genius to that art , is not a master both of his author's language , and of his own . Nor must , we understand ...
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... means the spirit of an author may be transfused , and yet not lost and thus it is plain , that the reason alleged by Sir John Denham has no farther force than to expression : for thought , if it be translated truly , cannot be lost in ...
... means the spirit of an author may be transfused , and yet not lost and thus it is plain , that the reason alleged by Sir John Denham has no farther force than to expression : for thought , if it be translated truly , cannot be lost in ...
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... mean time it seems to me , that the true reason why we have so few versions which are tolerable , is not from the too close pursuing of the author's sense , but because there are so few who have all the talents which are requisite for ...
... mean time it seems to me , that the true reason why we have so few versions which are tolerable , is not from the too close pursuing of the author's sense , but because there are so few who have all the talents which are requisite for ...
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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 ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds...
Page 610 - I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him : for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting...
Page 189 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 14 - The third way is that of imitation, where the translator, if now he has not lost that name, assumes the liberty not only to vary from the words and sense, but to forsake them both, as he sees occasion : and taking only some general hints from the original, to run division on the ground-work, as he pleases.
Page 627 - 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 605 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Page 648 - 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 629 - Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse as neighe as ever he can : Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he, never so rudely and so large : Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe : He may not spare, although he were his brother, He moste as wel sayn o word as an other.
Page 409 - And they did chide with him sharply. 2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Page 593 - 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...