The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...H. Baldwin and Son, 1800 |
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... pounds each ; to six other daughters eighty pounds each ; to his son Erasmus one hun- dred pounds , and to his younger sons , Henry and James , eighty pounds each : making in the whole the sum of twelve hundred and forty pounds . From ...
... pounds each ; to six other daughters eighty pounds each ; to his son Erasmus one hun- dred pounds , and to his younger sons , Henry and James , eighty pounds each : making in the whole the sum of twelve hundred and forty pounds . From ...
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... 13 , 1656-7 , ( proved Nov. 11 , 1658 , ) left her a very large portion for that time , two thousand five hun dred pounds . She all her life remained single . now extant , and is intermingled with verse , the 24 THE LIFE OF.
... 13 , 1656-7 , ( proved Nov. 11 , 1658 , ) left her a very large portion for that time , two thousand five hun dred pounds . She all her life remained single . now extant , and is intermingled with verse , the 24 THE LIFE OF.
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... pounds for the grant , it was not lightly to be parted with . A scheme , therefore , of cre- ating Baronets of Scotland was devised , which , it was conceived , would be no infraction of the original com- pact to confine the grants to a ...
... pounds for the grant , it was not lightly to be parted with . A scheme , therefore , of cre- ating Baronets of Scotland was devised , which , it was conceived , would be no infraction of the original com- pact to confine the grants to a ...
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... pounds a year . With respect to the num- ber of plays stipulated to be written , there is a great variation of statement in this as in almost all traditional tales ; nor would it have been easy to find out the truth , were it not for an ...
... pounds a year . With respect to the num- ber of plays stipulated to be written , there is a great variation of statement in this as in almost all traditional tales ; nor would it have been easy to find out the truth , were it not for an ...
الصفحة 72
... pounds a year , the theatrical season being usually about thirty weeks . Etherege , Lord Orrery , Otway , Shadwell , Ravens . berlain about the year 1678.4 The reasoning upon this contract 72 THE LIFE OF • APOLOGY, p. 161. ...
... pounds a year , the theatrical season being usually about thirty weeks . Etherege , Lord Orrery , Otway , Shadwell , Ravens . berlain about the year 1678.4 The reasoning upon this contract 72 THE LIFE OF • APOLOGY, p. 161. ...
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الصفحة xviii - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous : what is little is gay; what is great is splendid.
الصفحة x - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying; them.
الصفحة 283 - This is troublesome, and no way beneficial; but I could not deny the Stewards of the Feast, who came in a body to me to desire that kindness, one of them being Mr. Bridgeman, whose parents are your mother's friends.
الصفحة viii - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
الصفحة 177 - Either in the Customs, or the Appeals of the Excise, or some other way, means cannot be wanting, if you please to have the will. 'Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley, and starved Mr. Butler ; but neither of them had the happiness to live till your Lordship's ministry.
الصفحة 390 - 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?
الصفحة 143 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
الصفحة 132 - I have sent you herewith a libel, in which my own share is not the least. The king having perused it, is no way dissatisfied with his. The author is apparently Mr Dr[yden], his patron, Lord M[ulgrave,] having a panegyric in the midst.
الصفحة 255 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He...
الصفحة 195 - The Hind and the Panther transversed to the story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse,' printed in 1687, in 4to, in answer to Dryden's ' Hind and Panther,