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It is indeed but justice , that the most excellent and most profitable kind of writing
should be addressed by poets to such persons , whose characters have , for the
most part , been the guides and patterns of their imitation ; and poets , while they
...
It is indeed but justice , that the most excellent and most profitable kind of writing
should be addressed by poets to such persons , whose characters have , for the
most part , been the guides and patterns of their imitation ; and poets , while they
...
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It is from this consideration , that I have presuined to dedicate to your royal
highness these faint representations of your own worth and valour in heroick
poetry : Or , to speak more properly , not to dedicate , but to restore to you those
ideas ...
It is from this consideration , that I have presuined to dedicate to your royal
highness these faint representations of your own worth and valour in heroick
poetry : Or , to speak more properly , not to dedicate , but to restore to you those
ideas ...
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And I doubt not from both your actions , but to have abundant matter to fill the
annals of a glorious reign , and to perform the part of a just historian to my royal
master , without intermixing with it any thing of the poet . In the mean time , while
your ...
And I doubt not from both your actions , but to have abundant matter to fill the
annals of a glorious reign , and to perform the part of a just historian to my royal
master , without intermixing with it any thing of the poet . In the mean time , while
your ...
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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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But it is very clear to all who understand poetry , that serious plays ought not to
imitate conversation too nearly . If nothing were to be raised above that level , the
foundation of poetry would be destroyed . And if you once admit of a latitude , that
...
But it is very clear to all who understand poetry , that serious plays ought not to
imitate conversation too nearly . If nothing were to be raised above that level , the
foundation of poetry would be destroyed . And if you once admit of a latitude , that
...
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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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