The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, المجلد 1،العدد 2T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... actions had rendered him so odious , that it was taken notice of in parliament ; upon which he was expelled the House of Commons , whereof he was a member , as an infamous person ; though his friend Co- ventry adhered to him , and used ...
... actions had rendered him so odious , that it was taken notice of in parliament ; upon which he was expelled the House of Commons , whereof he was a member , as an infamous person ; though his friend Co- ventry adhered to him , and used ...
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... actions in it , how can it be imagined , that the picture of human life can be more exact , than life itself is ? He may be allowed sometimes to err , who undertakes to move so many characters and humours as are requisite in a play , in ...
... actions in it , how can it be imagined , that the picture of human life can be more exact , than life itself is ? He may be allowed sometimes to err , who undertakes to move so many characters and humours as are requisite in a play , in ...
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... action . For who could so severely judge of faults as he , who has given testimony he commits none ; your excellent poems having afforded that knowledge of it to the world , that your enemies are ready to upbraid you with it , as a ...
... action . For who could so severely judge of faults as he , who has given testimony he commits none ; your excellent poems having afforded that knowledge of it to the world , that your enemies are ready to upbraid you with it , as a ...
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... actions , they have only a wretched desire of doing that , which they cannot choose but do . I have dwelt , my Lord , thus long upon your writing , not because you deserve not greater and more noble commendations , but because I am not ...
... actions , they have only a wretched desire of doing that , which they cannot choose but do . I have dwelt , my Lord , thus long upon your writing , not because you deserve not greater and more noble commendations , but because I am not ...
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... action should depend . But , my Lord , though I have more to say upon this subject , yet I must remember , ' tis your Lord- ship to whom I speak ; who have much better commended this way by your writing in it , than I can do by writing ...
... action should depend . But , my Lord , though I have more to say upon this subject , yet I must remember , ' tis your Lord- ship to whom I speak ; who have much better commended this way by your writing in it , than I can do by writing ...
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الصفحة 99 - 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. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
الصفحة 102 - As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages) , I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
الصفحة 282 - ... saw before him. He knew that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity. Characters thus ample and general were not easily discriminated and preserved; yet perhaps no poet ever kept his personages more distinct from each other. I will not say with Pope, that every speech may be assigned to the proper speaker...
الصفحة 181 - Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
الصفحة 85 - A continued gravity keeps the spirit too much bent; we must refresh it sometimes, as we bait in a journey, that we may go on with greater ease.
الصفحة 101 - Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better ; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe ; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love.
الصفحة 294 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. DUCH. Alas, poor Richard! where rides he the whilst? YORK. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
الصفحة 82 - But, like a ball of fire, the further thrown, Still with a greater blaze she shone, And her bright soul broke out on every side.
الصفحة 32 - The drift of the ensuing discourse is chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them. This I intimate, lest any should think me so exceeding vain, as to teach others an art, which they understand much better than myself.
الصفحة 44 - ... every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies: the work then being pushed on by many hands, must of necessity go forward.