The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. Now First Collected and Published Together in Four Volumes. With Explanatory Notes and Observations. Also an Account of His Life and Writings ...J. and R. Tonson, in the Strand., 1760 |
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Page 71
... Roman Knights ; that he was born to the inheritance of a fplendid fortune ; that he was defigned to the ftudy of the law , and had made confiderable progress in it , before he quitted that profeffion , for this of Poetry , to which he ...
... Roman Knights ; that he was born to the inheritance of a fplendid fortune ; that he was defigned to the ftudy of the law , and had made confiderable progress in it , before he quitted that profeffion , for this of Poetry , to which he ...
Page 75
... Romans ufually did imitate . But it appears not from their writings , that any of the Grecians ever touched upon this way , which our Poet therefore juftly has vindicated to himself . I quarrel not at the word Heroidum , be- eause it is ...
... Romans ufually did imitate . But it appears not from their writings , that any of the Grecians ever touched upon this way , which our Poet therefore juftly has vindicated to himself . I quarrel not at the word Heroidum , be- eause it is ...
Page 115
... Roman sphere are found . Whether thy love is bent on blooming youth , On dawning sweetness in unartful truth ; Or courts the juicy joys of riper growth ; Here mayft thou find thy full defires in both . Or if autumnal beauties pleafe thy ...
... Roman sphere are found . Whether thy love is bent on blooming youth , On dawning sweetness in unartful truth ; Or courts the juicy joys of riper growth ; Here mayft thou find thy full defires in both . Or if autumnal beauties pleafe thy ...
Page 121
... Roman heart but felt a foreign flame ? Once more our prince prepares to make us glad ; And the remaining Eaft to Rome will add . Rejoice , ye Roman foldiers , in your urns ; Your enfigns from the Parthians fhall return ; And the flain ...
... Roman heart but felt a foreign flame ? Once more our prince prepares to make us glad ; And the remaining Eaft to Rome will add . Rejoice , ye Roman foldiers , in your urns ; Your enfigns from the Parthians fhall return ; And the flain ...
Page 132
... Romans were at Allia flain . Ill omens in her frowns are understood ; When she's in humor , ev'ry day is good . But than her birth - day feldom comes a worse ; When bribes and presents must be sent of course ; And that's a bloody day ...
... Romans were at Allia flain . Ill omens in her frowns are understood ; When she's in humor , ev'ry day is good . But than her birth - day feldom comes a worse ; When bribes and presents must be sent of course ; And that's a bloody day ...
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Page 308 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Page 214 - 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 79 - ... 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 8 - As well he may compare the day with night. Night is indeed the province of his reign: Yet all his dark exploits no more contain, Than a spy taken, and a sleeper slain...
Page 215 - The character of Zimri in my Absalom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury.
Page 67 - em twinkling up in air. Take not away the life you cannot give, For all things have an equal right to live. Kill noxious creatures, where 'tis sin to save ; This only just prerogative we have: But nourish life with vegetable food, And shun the sacrilegious taste of blood.
Page 288 - Where the Rank Matrons, Dancing to the Pipe, Gig with their Bums, and are for Action ripe...
Page 230 - For to speak sincerely, the manners of nations and ages are not to be confounded : we should either make them English, or leave them Roman.
Page 78 - I take imitation of an author, in their sense, to be an endeavour of a later poet to write like one who has written before him, on the same subject : that is, not to translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write, as he supposes that author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country.
Page 73 - ... equally judges, when we are concerned in the representation of them. Now I will appeal to any man who has read this poet, whether he finds not the natural emotion of the same passion in himself, which the poet describes in his feigned persons ? His thoughts, which are the pictures and results of those passions, are generally such as naturally arise from those disorderly motions of our spirits.