The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, 第 7 卷Paterson, 1882 - 1 頁 |
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第 294 頁 - I beg no pity for this mouldering clay ; For if you give it burial, there it takes Possession of your earth : If burnt and...
第 384 頁 - My father's, mother's, brother's death I pardon : That's somewhat sure, a mighty sum of murder, Of innocent and kindred blood struck off. My prayers and penance shall discount for these, And beg of Heaven to charge the bill on me : Behold what price I offer, and how dear To buy Sebastian's life.
第 229 頁 - An Opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, and goddesses, and heroes, which at least are descended from them, and are in due time to be adopted into their number.
第 229 頁 - ... the recitative part of the opera requires a more masculine beauty of expression and sound. The other, which, for want of a proper English word, I must call the songish part, must abound in the softness and variety of numbers ; its principal intention being to please the hearing, rather than to gratify the understanding.
第 180 頁 - He has often called me an atheist in print; I would believe more charitably of him, and that he only goes the broad way, because the other is too narrow for him.
第 235 頁 - Frenchman is enough to make a party, who maliciously endeavour to decry him. But the knowledge of Latin and Italian poets, both which he possesses, besides his skill in music, and his being acquainted with all the performances of the French operas, adding to these the good sense to which...
第 228 頁 - Propriety of thought is that fancy which arises naturally from the subject, or which the poet adapts to it; propriety of words is the clothing of those thoughts with such expressions as are naturally proper to them ; and from both these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight of poetry results.
第 164 頁 - Society might be distinguished, and not mistake Friends for Enemies, they were called also the Green Ribbon Club. Their Seat was in a sort of Carfour at...
第 180 頁 - Og may write against the king, if he pleases, so long as he drinks for him, and his writings will never do the government so much harm, as his drinking does it good ; for true subjects will not be much perverted by his libels; but the wine-duties rise considerably by his claret.
第 181 頁 - ... his late fall at the Old Devil, where he broke no ribs because the hardness of the stairs could reach no bones; and, for my part, I do not wonder how he came to fall, for I have always known him heavy: the miracle is how he got up again. I have heard of a...