The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, 2. köideGeorge Dearborn, 1836 |
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... actions . The world knows this , with- out my telling ; yet poets have a right of re- cording it to all posterity : Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori . Epaminondas , Lucullus , and the two first Cæ- sars , were not esteemed the worse ...
... actions . The world knows this , with- out my telling ; yet poets have a right of re- cording it to all posterity : Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori . Epaminondas , Lucullus , and the two first Cæ- sars , were not esteemed the worse ...
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... action , I have con- stantly observed , that they seemed desirous to retreat from business : greatness , they said , was nauseous , and a crowd was troublesome : quiet privacy was their ambition . Some few of them , I believe , said ...
... action , I have con- stantly observed , that they seemed desirous to retreat from business : greatness , they said , was nauseous , and a crowd was troublesome : quiet privacy was their ambition . Some few of them , I believe , said ...
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... action in which he would instruct his reader . Where the one sets out , as fully and distinctly as he can , all the ... actions of Augustus : but it is worth while to consider how admirably he has turned the course of his narration into ...
... action in which he would instruct his reader . Where the one sets out , as fully and distinctly as he can , all the ... actions of Augustus : but it is worth while to consider how admirably he has turned the course of his narration into ...
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... actions of so trivial a creature , with metaphors drawn from the most important concerns of mankind . His verses are not in a greater noise and hurry in the battles of Eneas and Turnus , than in the engagement of two swarms . And as ...
... actions of so trivial a creature , with metaphors drawn from the most important concerns of mankind . His verses are not in a greater noise and hurry in the battles of Eneas and Turnus , than in the engagement of two swarms . And as ...
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... action of it is always one , entire , and great . The least and most trivial episodes , or under - actions , which are interwoven in it , are parts either necessary or convenient to car- ry on the main design ; either so necessary ...
... action of it is always one , entire , and great . The least and most trivial episodes , or under - actions , which are interwoven in it , are parts either necessary or convenient to car- ry on the main design ; either so necessary ...
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Page 241 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 286 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.
Page 286 - LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria : for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them. And he said, Take the arrows : and he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground: and he smote thrice, and stayed. And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times, then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
Page 134 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Page 225 - A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.
Page 222 - IT was that memorable day in the first summer of the late war, when our Navy engaged the Dutch ; a day wherein the two most mighty and best appointed fleets which any age had ever seen, disputed the command of the greater half of the globe, the commerce of nations, and the riches of the universe. While these vast floating bodies, on either side, moved against each other in parallel lines, and our countrymen, under the happy conduct of His Royal Highness, went breaking, by little and little, into...
Page 239 - He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such to-day, as other plays should be ; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please ; Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come...
Page 242 - You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height. Humour was his proper sphere ; and in that he delighted most to represent mechanic people.
Page 231 - ... we cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were a pill to swallow : he gives us many times a hard nut to break our teeth, without a kernel for our pains.
Page 242 - If I would compare him with Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.