The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations, Volume 4Rivington, 1811 |
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... design'd ? A noisy nothing , and an empty wind . If he be what he promises in fhow , 516 520 Why was I fent , and why fear'd he to go ? Our boasting champion thought the task not light 525 To pafs the guards , commit himself to night ...
... design'd ? A noisy nothing , and an empty wind . If he be what he promises in fhow , 516 520 Why was I fent , and why fear'd he to go ? Our boasting champion thought the task not light 525 To pafs the guards , commit himself to night ...
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... design ; though Virgil must be ftill excepted , when that perhaps takes place . Yet he who is inquifitive to know an author's thoughts , will be disappointed in his expectation . And it is not always that a man will be contented to have ...
... design ; though Virgil must be ftill excepted , when that perhaps takes place . Yet he who is inquifitive to know an author's thoughts , will be disappointed in his expectation . And it is not always that a man will be contented to have ...
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... design : O rather live , to be the caufe of mine ! Should fome avenging ftorm thy veffel tear , ( But heav'n forbid my words fhould omen bear ) Then in thy face thy perjur'd vows would fly ; And my wrong'd ghost be present to thy eye ...
... design : O rather live , to be the caufe of mine ! Should fome avenging ftorm thy veffel tear , ( But heav'n forbid my words fhould omen bear ) Then in thy face thy perjur'd vows would fly ; And my wrong'd ghost be present to thy eye ...
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... design'd : But Cupid , laughing , when he saw my mind , From ev'ry fecond verse a foot purloin'd . Who gave thee , boy , this arbitrary sway , On fubjects , not thy own , commands to lay , Who Phoebus only and his laws obey ? ' Tis more ...
... design'd : But Cupid , laughing , when he saw my mind , From ev'ry fecond verse a foot purloin'd . Who gave thee , boy , this arbitrary sway , On fubjects , not thy own , commands to lay , Who Phoebus only and his laws obey ? ' Tis more ...
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... designs , and common draughts , are eafily mistaken , and mifapplied . Thus , by my long ftudy of your lordship , I am arrived at the knowledge of your particular manner . In the good poems of other men , like those artists , I can only ...
... designs , and common draughts , are eafily mistaken , and mifapplied . Thus , by my long ftudy of your lordship , I am arrived at the knowledge of your particular manner . In the good poems of other men , like those artists , I can only ...
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Page 367 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Page 84 - ... poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate ; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum...
Page 84 - No man is capable of translating poetry, who besides a genius to that art, is not a master both of his author's language, and of his own. Nor must we understand the language only of the poet, but his particular turn of thoughts and expression, which are the characters that distinguish, and as it were individuate, him from all other writers.
Page 323 - Scarce can our Fields, such Crowds at Tyburn die, With Hemp the Gallows and the Fleet supply. Propose your Schemes, ye Senatorian Band, Whose Ways and Means support the sinking Land; Lest Ropes be wanting in the tempting Spring, To rig another Convoy for the K[in]g.
Page 256 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Page 275 - Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts, which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words, which he had been digging from the mines of Chaucer and Spenser, and which, with all their rusticity, had somewhat of venerable in them. But I found not there neither that for which I looked.
Page 380 - Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain, " Think nothing gain'd," he cries, " till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.
Page 51 - On four feet imitates his brother beast: By slow degrees he gathers from the ground His legs, and to the rolling chair is bound; Then walks alone; a horseman now become, He rides a stick, and travels round the room.
Page 181 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Page 96 - Nor has my love made any coxcomb vain. Your boldnefs I with admiration fee ; What hope had you to gain a queen like me...