The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Том 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... perhaps equal powers of poetry ; Beau- mont the elder , whose poem on Bosworth Field carries us back to the days of the Plantagenets ; * I do not pretend to enter into the question of the effect of the drama upon morals . If this shall ...
... perhaps equal powers of poetry ; Beau- mont the elder , whose poem on Bosworth Field carries us back to the days of the Plantagenets ; * I do not pretend to enter into the question of the effect of the drama upon morals . If this shall ...
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... perhaps to blame during this period of usurpation ; for which it may be ad- mitted in excuse , that the metaphysical poetry could only be practised by men whose minds were deeply stored with learning , and who could boldly draw upon a ...
... perhaps to blame during this period of usurpation ; for which it may be ad- mitted in excuse , that the metaphysical poetry could only be practised by men whose minds were deeply stored with learning , and who could boldly draw upon a ...
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... perhaps , were written in ridicule of it ; but no circum- stance in his life is more remarkable , than that " Comus , " the " Monody on Lycidas , " the " Allegro and Penseroso , " and the " Hymn to the Nativity , " are unpolluted by the ...
... perhaps , were written in ridicule of it ; but no circum- stance in his life is more remarkable , than that " Comus , " the " Monody on Lycidas , " the " Allegro and Penseroso , " and the " Hymn to the Nativity , " are unpolluted by the ...
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... perhaps a dawning of more simple taste , im- pelled these courtly poets to seek another and more natural mode of pleasing . The melody of verse was a province unoccupied , and Waller , forming his rythm upon the modulation of Fair- fax ...
... perhaps a dawning of more simple taste , im- pelled these courtly poets to seek another and more natural mode of pleasing . The melody of verse was a province unoccupied , and Waller , forming his rythm upon the modulation of Fair- fax ...
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... perhaps distinguished themselves as poets and dramatists , were now struggling for fame in the field , or declaiming for power in the senate . The manners of the prevailing party , their fanatical detestation of every thing like elegant ...
... perhaps distinguished themselves as poets and dramatists , were now struggling for fame in the field , or declaiming for power in the senate . The manners of the prevailing party , their fanatical detestation of every thing like elegant ...
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Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 8 - England* began first that language; all our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court which could not parley Euphuism...
Сторінка 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.