The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations, Volume 1, Part 1Cadell and Davies, 1800 - 442 pages |
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... Seneca ; and the only line which remains of Ovid's play , for one line is left us , is not there to be found . There was therefore no need of the gravity of conjecture , or the discussion of plot or sentiment , to find ADVERTISEMENT . XV.
... Seneca ; and the only line which remains of Ovid's play , for one line is left us , is not there to be found . There was therefore no need of the gravity of conjecture , or the discussion of plot or sentiment , to find ADVERTISEMENT . XV.
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... play of images and the sprightliness of expression . Though all is easy , nothing is feeble ; though all seems ... plays . " - Spence's ANEC- DOTES . manner ; such a recurrence of particular modes as may xviii ADVERTISEMENT .
... play of images and the sprightliness of expression . Though all is easy , nothing is feeble ; though all seems ... plays . " - Spence's ANEC- DOTES . manner ; such a recurrence of particular modes as may xviii ADVERTISEMENT .
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... plays , when dramatick productions were not permitted to be exhibited , or , to use our author's words , " when ... play I undertook was THE DUKE OF GUISE , as the fairest way which the Act of Indemnity had then left us of setting ...
... plays , when dramatick productions were not permitted to be exhibited , or , to use our author's words , " when ... play I undertook was THE DUKE OF GUISE , as the fairest way which the Act of Indemnity had then left us of setting ...
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... plays were first exhi- bited ; but the lists which these papers furnish , do not contain any of Dryden's pieces , at least by name ... play denote that the theatres had been opened for some time before its production , and that dramatick ...
... plays were first exhi- bited ; but the lists which these papers furnish , do not contain any of Dryden's pieces , at least by name ... play denote that the theatres had been opened for some time before its production , and that dramatick ...
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... play , which he acknowledges was very ill received , and would have been driven from the scene , if this admired beauty had not by her favour and applause given " new life to his condemn'd and dying muse . " 9 It was , however , he ...
... play , which he acknowledges was very ill received , and would have been driven from the scene , if this admired beauty had not by her favour and applause given " new life to his condemn'd and dying muse . " 9 It was , however , he ...
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Page 392 - He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page xviii - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous : what is little is gay; what is great is splendid.
Page 304 - Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse, Soft pity to infuse ; He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate, Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...
Page 153 - One day as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, ' If I was a poet, (and I think I am poor enough to be one,) I would write a poem on such a subject in the following manner,' and then gave him the plan for it.
Page 525 - is Tonson. You will take care not to depart before he goes away : for I have not completed the sheet which I promised him ; and if you leave me unprotected, I must suffer all the rudeness to which his resentment can prompt his tongue.
Page viii - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Page 62 - Neander, to be in company together; three of them persons whom their wit and quality have made known to all the town; and whom I have chose to hide under these borrowed names, that they may not suffer by so ill a relation as I am going to make of their discourse.
Page x - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
Page 303 - The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again : At length, with love and wine at once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast.
Page 257 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.