The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, المجلد 6A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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الصفحة 228
... Hector a coward . In Dryden's time , the prejudice against this unfortunate female was probably forgotten , as her history had become less popular . There appears , however , some- thing too nice and fastidious in the critical rule ...
... Hector a coward . In Dryden's time , the prejudice against this unfortunate female was probably forgotten , as her history had become less popular . There appears , however , some- thing too nice and fastidious in the critical rule ...
الصفحة 230
... Hector and Troilus is very impressive , and no bad imitation of that betwixt Brutus and Cassius , with which Dryden seems to have been so much charmed , and which he has repeatedly striven to emulate . The parting of Hector and ...
... Hector and Troilus is very impressive , and no bad imitation of that betwixt Brutus and Cassius , with which Dryden seems to have been so much charmed , and which he has repeatedly striven to emulate . The parting of Hector and ...
الصفحة 240
... Hector , Troilus , Pandarus , and Thersites , and added that of Andromache . After this , I made , with no small trouble , an order and connection of all the scenes ; removing them from the places where they were inartificially set ...
... Hector , Troilus , Pandarus , and Thersites , and added that of Andromache . After this , I made , with no small trouble , an order and connection of all the scenes ; removing them from the places where they were inartificially set ...
الصفحة 242
... Hector . I will conclude my re- flections on it , with a passage of Longinus , con- cerning Plato's imitation of Homer . " We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate ...
... Hector . I will conclude my re- flections on it , with a passage of Longinus , con- cerning Plato's imitation of Homer . " We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate ...
الصفحة 268
... Hector is always represented as having been treacherous- ly slain . HECTOR , TROILUS , DRAMATIS PERSONÆ . Sons of PRIAM . PRIAM , King of Troy . ENEAS , a Trojan Warrior . PANDARUS , Uncle to CRESSIDA . CALCHAS , a Trojan Priest , and ...
... Hector is always represented as having been treacherous- ly slain . HECTOR , TROILUS , DRAMATIS PERSONÆ . Sons of PRIAM . PRIAM , King of Troy . ENEAS , a Trojan Warrior . PANDARUS , Uncle to CRESSIDA . CALCHAS , a Trojan Priest , and ...
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الصفحة 223 - Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path...
الصفحة 223 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
الصفحة 285 - Too subtle-potent, tun'd too sharp in sweetness, For the capacity of my ruder powers: I fear it much; and I do fear besides, That I shall lose distinction in my joys...
الصفحة 188 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
الصفحة 223 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast; keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you...
الصفحة 117 - Yet man, vain man, would with his short-lined plummet Fathom the vast abyss of heavenly justice. Whatever is, is in its causes just, Since all things are by fate. But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain, the nearest links, His eyes not carrying to that equal beam That poises all above.
الصفحة 258 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
الصفحة 365 - AmboyS" upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly ;* nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting...
الصفحة 223 - For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And, with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
الصفحة 440 - Kings' titles commonly begin by force, Which time wears off, and mellows into right; So power, which, in one age, is tyranny, Is ripened, in the next, to true succession: She's in possession.