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Page xvi
... character and conduct which are to comedy what passion is to tragedy . What wit he had was coarse and serious ; he had no power of inventing ludicrous incidents ; he could not manage the light artillery of colloquial raillery . In his ...
... character and conduct which are to comedy what passion is to tragedy . What wit he had was coarse and serious ; he had no power of inventing ludicrous incidents ; he could not manage the light artillery of colloquial raillery . In his ...
Page xvii
... characters ( as I may probably imagine ) from the example of Corneille and some French poets . In this condition did this part of poetry remain at his Majesty's return , when growing bolder , as being now owned by a public authority ...
... characters ( as I may probably imagine ) from the example of Corneille and some French poets . In this condition did this part of poetry remain at his Majesty's return , when growing bolder , as being now owned by a public authority ...
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... characters move is not merely a world which has no counterpart in human experience , but is so incongruous and chaotic that it is simply unintelligible and unim- aginable , even as fiction . His men and women are men and women only by ...
... characters move is not merely a world which has no counterpart in human experience , but is so incongruous and chaotic that it is simply unintelligible and unim- aginable , even as fiction . His men and women are men and women only by ...
Page xix
... characters against each other in declamation and dialogue , and it is these interbanded declamations and dialogues which make up the greater part , or at least the most effective parts , of the dramas . Not that scenic effects are ...
... characters against each other in declamation and dialogue , and it is these interbanded declamations and dialogues which make up the greater part , or at least the most effective parts , of the dramas . Not that scenic effects are ...
Page xxi
... their sentiments , their incidents and their characters , must have been obvious to any mischievous humourist . The Duke of Buckingham , then one of the leading wits and most prominent figures in Court and in MEMOIR OF DRYDEN . xxi.
... their sentiments , their incidents and their characters , must have been obvious to any mischievous humourist . The Duke of Buckingham , then one of the leading wits and most prominent figures in Court and in MEMOIR OF DRYDEN . xxi.
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Page 19 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 8 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high 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 honor blest.
Page 15 - I contemn, (But manly force becomes the diadem. 'Tis true he grants the people all they crave, And more perhaps than subjects ought to have: For lavish grants suppose a monarch tame And more his goodness than his wit proclaim. But when should people strive their bonds to break, If not when kings are negligent or weak...
Page 87 - And in his father's right and realm's defence, Ne'er to have peace with wit nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale;
Page 9 - 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.
Page 6 - Nor interest made the factious crowd to join: The sober part of Israel, free from stain, Well knew the value of a peaceful reign; And looking backward with a wise affright Saw seams of wounds dishonest to the sight, In contemplation of whose ugly scars They cursed the memory of civil wars.
Page 19 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late: He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Page 8 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Page 9 - In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state...
Page 32 - From plots and treasons heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave, God cannot grant so much as they can crave. What then is left, but with a jealous eye To guard the small remains of royalty?