The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1811 - 445 pages |
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Page xxii
... lefs time than The Vir- gin Martyr ; though the author thought not fit either often- tatiously or mournfully to tell how little labour it cost him , or at how fhort a warning he produced it . It was a temporary performance , written in ...
... lefs time than The Vir- gin Martyr ; though the author thought not fit either often- tatiously or mournfully to tell how little labour it cost him , or at how fhort a warning he produced it . It was a temporary performance , written in ...
Page xxiii
... lefs fkilful hand " ( Such as difquiet always what is well , " And by ill - imitating would excel ) Downes fays , it was performed on a very unlucky day , viz . that on which the Duke of Monmouth landed in the Weft ; and he intimates ...
... lefs fkilful hand " ( Such as difquiet always what is well , " And by ill - imitating would excel ) Downes fays , it was performed on a very unlucky day , viz . that on which the Duke of Monmouth landed in the Weft ; and he intimates ...
Page xxviii
... lefs likely to be well received , if fome of his verfes did not introduce it . The price of a prologue was two guineas , till , being asked to write one for Mr. Southern , he demanded three : " Not , " faid he , " young " man , out of ...
... lefs likely to be well received , if fome of his verfes did not introduce it . The price of a prologue was two guineas , till , being asked to write one for Mr. Southern , he demanded three : " Not , " faid he , " young " man , out of ...
Page xxxi
... lefs they gained from his own temper the power of vexing him , which his frequent bursts of resentment give reason to suspect . He is always angry at some past , or afraid of fome future cen- fure ; but he leffens the fmart of his ...
... lefs they gained from his own temper the power of vexing him , which his frequent bursts of resentment give reason to suspect . He is always angry at some past , or afraid of fome future cen- fure ; but he leffens the fmart of his ...
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... lefs cogent by men lefs famed for liberality . Yet Dryden always repre- fented himself as fuffering under a public infliction ; and once particularly demands refpect for the patience with which he endured the lofs of his little fortune ...
... lefs cogent by men lefs famed for liberality . Yet Dryden always repre- fented himself as fuffering under a public infliction ; and once particularly demands refpect for the patience with which he endured the lofs of his little fortune ...
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Page lxxxv - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 221 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son, Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Page 212 - Of men by laws less circumscribed and bound, They led their wild desires to woods and caves And thought that all but savages were slaves.
Page 240 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Page xcvii - Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity...
Page xc - Proffering the Hind to wait her half the way: That, since the sky was clear, an hour of talk Might help her to beguile the tedious walk. With much good-will the motion was embrac'd...
Page 298 - Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in: Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.
Page 302 - But of King David's foes, be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom ; And, for my foes, may this their blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee...
Page 262 - To learning and to loyalty were bred : For colleges on bounteous kings depend, And never rebel was to arts a friend.
Page lxv - 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.