Memoirs of John DrydenA. & W. Galignani, 1826 - 277 páginas |
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... from the time of the Restoration till his death , in 1700 , a decided and acknow- ledged superiority over all the poets of his age . As he wrote from necessity , he was VOL . I. I obliged to pay a certain deference to the pub- lic.
... from the time of the Restoration till his death , in 1700 , a decided and acknow- ledged superiority over all the poets of his age . As he wrote from necessity , he was VOL . I. I obliged to pay a certain deference to the pub- lic.
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... wrote . The drama , it is true , was the branch of poetry most successfully cultivated ; for it afforded the most ready appeal to the public taste . The number of theatres then open , in all parts of the city , secured to the ...
... wrote . The drama , it is true , was the branch of poetry most successfully cultivated ; for it afforded the most ready appeal to the public taste . The number of theatres then open , in all parts of the city , secured to the ...
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... wrote a book , entitled « Euphues and his England , or the Anatomy of Wit ; » which quality he makes to consist in the indulgence of every monstrous and overstrained conceit , that can be engendered by a strong memory and a heated brain ...
... wrote a book , entitled « Euphues and his England , or the Anatomy of Wit ; » which quality he makes to consist in the indulgence of every monstrous and overstrained conceit , that can be engendered by a strong memory and a heated brain ...
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... wrote a Latin Trea- tise in confutation of Hobbes , and a few theo- logical tracts and single sermons . While at col- lege , our author's conduct seems not to have been uniformly regular . He was subject to slight punishment for ...
... wrote a Latin Trea- tise in confutation of Hobbes , and a few theo- logical tracts and single sermons . While at col- lege , our author's conduct seems not to have been uniformly regular . He was subject to slight punishment for ...
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... wrote prefaces , and other occasional pieces . But having , as Mr Malone has observed , a patrimony , though a small one , of his own , it seems impossible that our author was ever in that state of mean and abject dependance , which the ...
... wrote prefaces , and other occasional pieces . But having , as Mr Malone has observed , a patrimony , though a small one , of his own , it seems impossible that our author was ever in that state of mean and abject dependance , which the ...
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Página 22 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Página 161 - 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...
Página 14 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it ; it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago ; and the milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh, in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good ; I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.
Página 169 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Página 120 - 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.
Página 253 - Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in...
Página 157 - ... one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
Página 162 - Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the Sun When first on this delightful land...
Página 214 - 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.
Página 119 - This last is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility.