The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...H. Baldwin and Son, 1800 |
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... imagination . My wife and sonn return you their most humble service , and I give mine to my cousin Steward . — Madam , Your most obliged and most obedient Servant , JOHN DRYDEN . [ The superscription has not been preserved . ] LETTER ...
... imagination . My wife and sonn return you their most humble service , and I give mine to my cousin Steward . — Madam , Your most obliged and most obedient Servant , JOHN DRYDEN . [ The superscription has not been preserved . ] LETTER ...
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... imagination , which by over - pleasing fanciful men , flatters them into the danger of writing ; so that when I had moulded it to that shape it now bears , I looked with such disgust upon it , that the censures of our severest criticks ...
... imagination , which by over - pleasing fanciful men , flatters them into the danger of writing ; so that when I had moulded it to that shape it now bears , I looked with such disgust upon it , that the censures of our severest criticks ...
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... imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless , that , like an high - ranging spaniel , it must have clogs tied to it , lest it outrun the judgment . The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ; he is ...
... imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless , that , like an high - ranging spaniel , it must have clogs tied to it , lest it outrun the judgment . The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ; he is ...
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... imagination more than the place itself can please our sight . When we see death represented , we are convinced it is but fiction ; but when we hear it related , our eyes , the strongest witnesses , are wanting , which might have unde ...
... imagination more than the place itself can please our sight . When we see death represented , we are convinced it is but fiction ; but when we hear it related , our eyes , the strongest witnesses , are wanting , which might have unde ...
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... indeed , the indecency of tumults is all which can be objected against fighting : for why may not our imagination as well suffer itself to be deluded " with the probability of it , as with any other 90 ON DRAMATICK POESY .
... indeed , the indecency of tumults is all which can be objected against fighting : for why may not our imagination as well suffer itself to be deluded " with the probability of it , as with any other 90 ON DRAMATICK POESY .
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Términos y frases comunes
action admire afterwards ancients appears argument Aristotle audience ballad beauty Ben Jonson betwixt blank verse character Charles comedy Cotterstock Cousin Crites criticks daughter desire discourse DRAMATICK POESY Duke DUKE OF LERMA Earl edition English errour Essay Eugenius excellent fancy father faults favour Fletcher French friends give heroick honour Horace humour ICON ANIMORUM imagine imitation JACOB TONSON JOHN DRYDEN Jonson judge judgment kind King lady language last age letter lines Lisideius Lord Lord Buckhurst Lord Roscommon MADAM nature never observed opinion Oundle Ovid passions persons Plautus pleas'd plot poct poem poet poetry Preface present printed probably publick published reason rhyme scenes serious plays Servant Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew SILENT WOMAN Sir Robert Sir Robert Howard sonn speak stage Steward supposed theatre thing thought tion tragedy translated Virgil words writ write written
Pasajes populares
Página 95 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Página 99 - He was deeply conversant in the ancients, both Greek and Latin, and he borrowed boldly from them : there is scarce a poet or historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he has not translated in Sejanus and Catiline. But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Página 38 - Crites himself did not much oppose it: and every one was willing to acknowledge how much our poesy is improved, by the happiness of some writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make our rhyme so properly a part of the verse, that it should never mislead the sense, but itself be led and governed by it.
Página 193 - Witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age. I suppose I need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the historical plays of Shakespeare : besides many of the rest, as the Winter's Tale, Love's Labour Lost, Measure for Measure...
Página 142 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Página 242 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her.
Página 66 - ... stuffs; and two actions, that is, two plays, carried on together, to the confounding of the audience; who, before they are warm in their concernments for one part, are diverted to another; and by that means espouse the interest of neither.
Página 30 - The drift of the ensuing discourse is chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them. This I intimate, lest any should think me so exceeding vain, as to teach others an art, which they understand much better than myself.
Página 122 - I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing betwixt what is nearest to the nature of comedy, — which is the imitation of common persons and ordinary speaking, — and what is nearest the nature of a serious play. "This last is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch.
Página 211 - The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force, by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety...