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Even down to the cighteenth century , the portrait of every soldier of rank was
attired in complete armour , though , perhaps , he never saw a suit of mail
excepting in the Tower of London ; and on the same principle of prescriptive
custom ...
Even down to the cighteenth century , the portrait of every soldier of rank was
attired in complete armour , though , perhaps , he never saw a suit of mail
excepting in the Tower of London ; and on the same principle of prescriptive
custom ...
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The reader , or spectator , is never allowed to repose on the scene before him ;
and although the changes of fortune are too rapid to be either probable , or
altogether pleasing , yet they arrest the attention by their splendour and
importance ...
The reader , or spectator , is never allowed to repose on the scene before him ;
and although the changes of fortune are too rapid to be either probable , or
altogether pleasing , yet they arrest the attention by their splendour and
importance ...
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reputation ; it was occasion only has been wanting to your courage , for that can
never be wanting to occasion . The same ardour still incites you to heroick
actions , and the same concernment for all the interests of your king and brother ...
reputation ; it was occasion only has been wanting to your courage , for that can
never be wanting to occasion . The same ardour still incites you to heroick
actions , and the same concernment for all the interests of your king and brother ...
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Both the Greek and the Italian poet had well considered , that a tame hero , who
never transgresses the bounds of moral virtue , would shine but dimly in an epic
poem ; the strictness of those rules might well give precepts to the reader , but ...
Both the Greek and the Italian poet had well considered , that a tame hero , who
never transgresses the bounds of moral virtue , would shine but dimly in an epic
poem ; the strictness of those rules might well give precepts to the reader , but ...
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Yet , even they who have written worst in it , would have written worse without it :
They have cozened many with their sound , who never took the pains to examine
their sense . In fine , they have succeeded ; though , it is true , they have more ...
Yet , even they who have written worst in it , would have written worse without it :
They have cozened many with their sound , who never took the pains to examine
their sense . In fine , they have succeeded ; though , it is true , they have more ...
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Página 38 - But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 111 - As scriv'ners draw away the bankers' trade. Howe'er, the poet 's safe enough to-day, They cannot censure an unfinish'd play. But, as when vizard-mask appears in pit, Straight every man who thinks himself a wit Perks up, and, managing his comb with grace, With his white wig sets off his nut-brown face...
Página 3 - If from thy hands alone my death can be, I am immortal, and a god to thee. If I would kill thee now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is fixed so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down.
Página 225 - 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.
Página 220 - He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
Página 213 - 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.
Página 57 - ... less." In return for such proofs of tenderness as these, her admirer consents to murder his two sons and a benefactor to whom he feels the warmest gratitude. Lyndaraxa, in the Conquest of Granada, assumes the same lofty tone with Abdelmelech.
Página 14 - You have lost that which you call natural, and have not acquired the last perfection of art.
Página 232 - ... the ground, as if she were sinking under the conscious load of her own attractions ; then launches into a flood of fine language and compliment, still playing her chest forward in fifty falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water ; and, to complete her impertinence, she is so rapidly fond of her own wit, that she will not give her lover leave to praise it : silent, assenting bows, and vain endeavours to speak, are all the share of the conversation he is admitted to, which, at last, he is...
Página 118 - Love's an heroic passion, which can find No room in any base degenerate mind : It kindles all the soul with honour's fire, To make the lover worthy his desire.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... Volumen 4 de The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected, John Dryden |
| Autores | John Dryden, Walter Scott |
| Editor | W. Miller, 1808 |
| Procedencia del original | la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 3 Nov 2006 |
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