The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, 17. köideWilliam Miller, 1808 |
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... Roman learning , under the same favourable constellation was born the famous philosopher and historian , Plutarch ; than whom antiquity has never produced a man more generally knowing , or more virtuous ; and no suc- ceeding age has ...
... Roman learning , under the same favourable constellation was born the famous philosopher and historian , Plutarch ; than whom antiquity has never produced a man more generally knowing , or more virtuous ; and no suc- ceeding age has ...
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... Roman language at that time was not only vulgar in Rome itself , but generally through the extent of that vast empire , and in Greece , which was a member of it , as our author has remarked to- wards the end of his Platonic Questions ...
... Roman language at that time was not only vulgar in Rome itself , but generally through the extent of that vast empire , and in Greece , which was a member of it , as our author has remarked to- wards the end of his Platonic Questions ...
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... Roman His- tory in the Greek language , had shewn as manifest a contempt of Latin , in respect of the other , as Frenchmen now do of English , which they disdain to speak while they live among us ; but , with great advantage to their ...
... Roman His- tory in the Greek language , had shewn as manifest a contempt of Latin , in respect of the other , as Frenchmen now do of English , which they disdain to speak while they live among us ; but , with great advantage to their ...
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... Roman Questions , sufficiently testify . Without these helps , it had been impossible for him to leave in writing so many particular observations of men and man- ners , and as impossible to have gathered them with- out conversation and ...
... Roman Questions , sufficiently testify . Without these helps , it had been impossible for him to leave in writing so many particular observations of men and man- ners , and as impossible to have gathered them with- out conversation and ...
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... Roman liberty . That Plutarch was married in his own country , and that before he came to Rome , is probable . That the fame of him was come before him , by reason of some part of his works already published , is also credible , because ...
... Roman liberty . That Plutarch was married in his own country , and that before he came to Rome , is probable . That the fame of him was come before him , by reason of some part of his works already published , is also credible , because ...
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Page 84 - 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.
Page 85 - 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 76 - Plutarch, to thy deathless praise Does martial Rome this grateful statue raise ; Because both Greece and she thy fame have shared, (Their heroes written, and their lives compared ;) But thou thyself could'st never write thy own ; Their lives have parallels, but thine has none.
Page 279 - Oh lasting as those colours may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line ; New graces yearly like thy works display, • Soft without weakness, without glaring gay; Led by some rule, that guides, but not constrains; And finish'd more through happiness than pains.
Page 319 - Preserved; but I must bear this testimony to his memory, that the passions are truly touched in it, though, perhaps there is somewhat to be desired both in the grounds of them, and in the height and elegance of expression ; but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty.
Page 207 - What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?' Remember how often Paul appeals to his holy, just, unblameable life.
Page 309 - ... cattle," says the Poet: or at best, the keepers of cattle for other men : they have nothing which is properly their own ; that is a sufficient mortification for me, while I am translating Virgil. But to copy the best author is a kind of praise if I perform it as I ought; as a copy after Raphael is more to be commended than an original of any indifferent Painter. Under this head of invention is placed the disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole...
Page 293 - The perfection of such stage-characters consists chiefly in their likeness to the deficient faulty nature, which is their original ; only, as it is observed more at large hereafter, in such cases there will always be found a better likeness and a worse, and the better is constantly to be chosen ; I mean in tragedy, which re.preseuts the figures of the highest fonn amongst mankind.
Page 303 - After all, it is a good thing to laugh at any rate ; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh: and, as Sir William Davenant observes, in his Preface to Gondibert, " It is the wisdom of a government to permit plays, (he might have added farces,) as it is the prudence of a carter to put bells upon his horses to make them carry their burdens cheerfully.
Page 309 - Without invention, a painter is but a copier, and a poet but a plagiary of others. Both are allowed sometimes to copy, and translate ; but, as our author tells you, that is not the best part of their reputation. " Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle...