The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Том 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... satire upon the royal side , and strained his ima- gination for extravagant invective against the Scottish army , who sold their king , and the par- liament leaders , who bought him . All these , and others unnecessary to mention , were ...
... satire upon the royal side , and strained his ima- gination for extravagant invective against the Scottish army , who sold their king , and the par- liament leaders , who bought him . All these , and others unnecessary to mention , were ...
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... satire of Perseus ) I translated this satire when I was a King's scholar at Westminster school , for Thursday night's exercise ; and believe , that it , and many other of my exercises of this nature in English verse , are still in the ...
... satire of Perseus ) I translated this satire when I was a King's scholar at Westminster school , for Thursday night's exercise ; and believe , that it , and many other of my exercises of this nature in English verse , are still in the ...
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... satire . † He took , however , the degree of Bachelor , in Janu- ary 1653-4 , but neither became Master of Arts , ‡ * The following order is quoted , by Mr Malone , from the Conclusion - book , in the archives of Trinity College , p ...
... satire . † He took , however , the degree of Bachelor , in Janu- ary 1653-4 , but neither became Master of Arts , ‡ * The following order is quoted , by Mr Malone , from the Conclusion - book , in the archives of Trinity College , p ...
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... satire called " The Protestant Poets , " our author is thus contrasted with Sir Roger L'Estrange . In levelling his reproaches , the satirist was not probably very solicitous about genealogical accuracy ; as , in the eighth line , I ...
... satire called " The Protestant Poets , " our author is thus contrasted with Sir Roger L'Estrange . In levelling his reproaches , the satirist was not probably very solicitous about genealogical accuracy ; as , in the eighth line , I ...
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... satire then prevalent afforded opportunities of applying it . The same depth of learning , the same extra- vagant ingenuity in combining the most remote images , and in driving casual associations to the verge of absurdity , almost all ...
... satire then prevalent afforded opportunities of applying it . The same depth of learning , the same extra- vagant ingenuity in combining the most remote images , and in driving casual associations to the verge of absurdity , almost all ...
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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.