The Poetical Works of John Dryden., Esq: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, Volumen 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1811 |
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... use of his name was a pious fraud , which however seems not to have had much effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The verfion of Xavier's Life is commended by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ...
... use of his name was a pious fraud , which however seems not to have had much effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The verfion of Xavier's Life is commended by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ...
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... use . " thoughts , " when he wrote , " flowed in upon him fo faft , " that his only care was which to chufe , and which to reject . " Such rapidity of compofition naturally promises a flow of talk ; yet we must be coutent to believe ...
... use . " thoughts , " when he wrote , " flowed in upon him fo faft , " that his only care was which to chufe , and which to reject . " Such rapidity of compofition naturally promises a flow of talk ; yet we must be coutent to believe ...
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... use of Alex- ander's Feaft . In those days the economy of government was yet unset- tled , and the payments of the Exchequer were dilatory and uncertain ; of this diforder there is reafon to believe that the Laureat fometimes felt the ...
... use of Alex- ander's Feaft . In those days the economy of government was yet unset- tled , and the payments of the Exchequer were dilatory and uncertain ; of this diforder there is reafon to believe that the Laureat fometimes felt the ...
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... use , and free from the harshness of terms appro- priated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too re- mote , defeat the purpose of a poet . From those founds which we hear on small or on coarse occafions , we do not eafily ...
... use , and free from the harshness of terms appro- priated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too re- mote , defeat the purpose of a poet . From those founds which we hear on small or on coarse occafions , we do not eafily ...
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... use of mythology . warded the Heathen deities for their care , With Alga who the facred altar ftrows ? To all the fea - gods Charles an offering owes ; A bull to thee , Portunus , thall be slain ; A ram to you , ye Tempests of the Main ...
... use of mythology . warded the Heathen deities for their care , With Alga who the facred altar ftrows ? To all the fea - gods Charles an offering owes ; A bull to thee , Portunus , thall be slain ; A ram to you , ye Tempests of the Main ...
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Página 75 - The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit; and wit in the poet, or Wit writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction), is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after; or, without metaphor, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.
Página liii - 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.
Página 232 - 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!
Página 158 - Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Página 303 - 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 every man with him was God or Devil.
Página 366 - Babel, which if it were possible, as it is not, to reach heaven, would come to nothing by the confusion of the workmen. For every man is building a several...
Página 290 - 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.
Página 294 - 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...
Página 384 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Página 254 - To learning and to loyalty were bred : For colleges on bounteous kings depend, And never rebel was to arts a friend.