The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of DrydenA. and C. Black, 1869 - Demonology |
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... performance , allow- ed to be most excellent in the particular style which was fashionable for the time . It is the object of this Memoir to connect , with the account of Dry- den's life and publications , such a general view of the ...
... performance , allow- ed to be most excellent in the particular style which was fashionable for the time . It is the object of this Memoir to connect , with the account of Dry- den's life and publications , such a general view of the ...
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... performance represented upon one stage or other ; and he was neither tired nor disgusted by the difficulties , and disagreeable observances , which must now be necessarily under- gone by every candidate for dramatic laurels . But ...
... performance represented upon one stage or other ; and he was neither tired nor disgusted by the difficulties , and disagreeable observances , which must now be necessarily under- gone by every candidate for dramatic laurels . But ...
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... performance , with a frontispiece representing an elephant dancing on the slack rope . [ The republication , by our modern Radicals , of Mr Southey's juvenile piece , " Wat Tyler , " had not occurred when Sir Walter Scott wrote his Life ...
... performance , with a frontispiece representing an elephant dancing on the slack rope . [ The republication , by our modern Radicals , of Mr Southey's juvenile piece , " Wat Tyler , " had not occurred when Sir Walter Scott wrote his Life ...
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... performance , of which he forms an essential , but very defec- tive part in another . His part was , I presume , partly written , partly extempore . Something of the kind was certainly known upon our stage . Wilson and Tarleton , in ...
... performance , of which he forms an essential , but very defec- tive part in another . His part was , I presume , partly written , partly extempore . Something of the kind was certainly known upon our stage . Wilson and Tarleton , in ...
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... performance , and received the incense of the author ; who boasts , " Posterity will judge by my success , I had the Grecian poet's happiness , Who , waiving plots , found out a better way , — Some god descended and preserved the play ...
... performance , and received the incense of the author ; who boasts , " Posterity will judge by my success , I had the Grecian poet's happiness , Who , waiving plots , found out a better way , — Some god descended and preserved the play ...
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Page 219 - 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?
Page 148 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 213 - ... 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 chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That...
Page 404 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation; and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Page 264 - My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires, My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights, and, when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am ; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task : my doubts are done ; What more could fright my faith than Three in One...
Page 447 - 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.
Page 362 - Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Page 213 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Page 149 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew: fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 275 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.