The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, 1. köideHarper, 1837 |
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Page viii
... better ex- culpation . Having failed in his first attempts at comedy , which he discovered ' was the most difficult part of dramatic poetry , ' Dryden's next per- formance was a tragi - comedy , called the Rival Ladies , which was ...
... better ex- culpation . Having failed in his first attempts at comedy , which he discovered ' was the most difficult part of dramatic poetry , ' Dryden's next per- formance was a tragi - comedy , called the Rival Ladies , which was ...
Page xix
... better than his ' roy- al taste . ' " Should this play be considered as a model of the heroic style , the character , sentiments , and language of the Queen Nourmahal will be suf- ficient to place it on a very low level in point of ...
... better than his ' roy- al taste . ' " Should this play be considered as a model of the heroic style , the character , sentiments , and language of the Queen Nourmahal will be suf- ficient to place it on a very low level in point of ...
Page xx
... better performance , and what Is yet more strange , Venice Preserved , met with a very cold reception . See Armstrong's Miscellan . 1. p . 137 . Though prais'd and punish'd for another's rhymes , His own deserve as much applause ...
... better performance , and what Is yet more strange , Venice Preserved , met with a very cold reception . See Armstrong's Miscellan . 1. p . 137 . Though prais'd and punish'd for another's rhymes , His own deserve as much applause ...
Page xxii
... better arranged in Dryden ; the unities more strictly preserved , the interest more concentrated . Those parts that do not advance the action are omitted , some characters are more fully deve- loped , but that of Antony , Scott ...
... better arranged in Dryden ; the unities more strictly preserved , the interest more concentrated . Those parts that do not advance the action are omitted , some characters are more fully deve- loped , but that of Antony , Scott ...
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... better preserved ; his other improvements show to little advantage beside the venerable struc- ture to which they are attached : and he con- siders that Dryden deviated no less from historic See an impartial and instructive criticism on ...
... better preserved ; his other improvements show to little advantage beside the venerable struc- ture to which they are attached : and he con- siders that Dryden deviated no less from historic See an impartial and instructive criticism on ...
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Page 145 - O source of uncreated light, The Father's promised Paraclete ! Thrice holy fount, thrice holy fire, Our hearts with heavenly love inspire ; Come, and thy sacred unction bring To sanctify us, while we sing.
Page 39 - And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, 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 43 - Some of their chiefs were princes of the land: In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; 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 114 - But Shadwell never deviates into sense. «.! Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, « And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty : ( Thoughtless as monarch oaks, that shade the plain, And, spread in solemn state, supinely reign. Heywood and Shirley were but types of thee, Thou last great prophet of tautology.
Page 144 - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Page 43 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Page 126 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Page 327 - 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 groundwork, as he pleases.
Page 129 - O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more? It might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
Page 40 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son; Got while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate; Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this the triple bond he broke; The pillars of the public safety shook; And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke: Then...