The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, 第 2 卷T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... reader . I am however too well apprized of the rooted enmity borne by the " incorrigible Jacobins " of the present ... readers , who , though they may have been dazzled by the false lights held up to them , are not yet wholly cor- rupted ...
... reader . I am however too well apprized of the rooted enmity borne by the " incorrigible Jacobins " of the present ... readers , who , though they may have been dazzled by the false lights held up to them , are not yet wholly cor- rupted ...
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... reader , that I have endeavoured in this play to follow the prac tice of the ancients , who , as Mr. Rymer has judiciously observed , are and ought to be our masters . Horace likewise gives it for a rule in his Art of Poetry , Vos ...
... reader , that I have endeavoured in this play to follow the prac tice of the ancients , who , as Mr. Rymer has judiciously observed , are and ought to be our masters . Horace likewise gives it for a rule in his Art of Poetry , Vos ...
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... reader will easily observe how much the copy is inferiour to the original . He tells you himself , that he owes a great part of his success to the happy Episode of Theseus and Dirce ; which is the same thing as if we should acknowledge ...
... reader will easily observe how much the copy is inferiour to the original . He tells you himself , that he owes a great part of his success to the happy Episode of Theseus and Dirce ; which is the same thing as if we should acknowledge ...
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... reader , and would justify myself from flattery by the publick voice , whatever protestation you might enter to the con- and he changed sides often , with little regard either to religion or the interest of his country . He made many ...
... reader , and would justify myself from flattery by the publick voice , whatever protestation you might enter to the con- and he changed sides often , with little regard either to religion or the interest of his country . He made many ...
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... reader will discover in his closet that trashy stuff , whose glittering deceived him in the action . I have often heard the stationer sighing in his shop , and wishing for those hands to take off his me- lancholy bargain , which clapped ...
... reader will discover in his closet that trashy stuff , whose glittering deceived him in the action . I have often heard the stationer sighing in his shop , and wishing for those hands to take off his me- lancholy bargain , which clapped ...
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ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL acted action afterwards ALBION AND ALBANIUS amongst answer appears betwixt Bishop called catholick cause character church of England Cleomenes commendation confess conscience criticks death DEDICATION discourse dispute Dryden Duchess Duchess of York Duke of Guise Earl Elkanah Settle endeavour enemies English errours father favour fortune French friends give Henry the Third honour JOHN DRYDEN judge judgment King King of Navarre King's Lady lawful League learned least libel lived Lord Lord Rochester Lordship Majesty matter mean musick nature never observed opera opinion papists parallel parliament party person play pleased Plutarch poem poet poetry Pope popish Popish Plot praise Preface pretended prince protestant publick reader reason rebellion religion Roman Rome royal satire says scripture Shaftesbury shew supposed tell theatre thing thought tion tragedy Trajan translated true verses virtue words write written
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第 14 頁 - Particularly, the action is so much one, that it is the only of the kind without episode, or underplot ; every scene in the tragedy conducing to the main design, and every act concluding with a turn of it.
第 24 頁 - We who write, if we want the talent, yet have the excuse that we do it for a poor subsistence; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right where he said that no man is satisfied with his own condition.
第 329 頁 - This, however, is a composition of great excellence in its kind, in which the familiar is very properly diversified with the solemn, and the grave with the humorous; in which metre has neither weakened the force nor clouded the perspicuity of argument. Nor will it be easy to find another example equally happy of this middle kind of writing, which, though prosaic in some parts, rises to high poetry in others, and neither towers to the skies nor creeps along the ground.
第 23 頁 - Lucan's example was enough to teach them manners; and after he was put to death, for overcoming Nero, the emperor carried it without dispute for the best poet in his dominions. No man was ambitious of that grinning honour ; for if he heard the malicious trumpeter proclaiming his name before his betters, he knew there was but one way with him.
第 29 頁 - I hope, I may affirm, and without vanity, that, by imitating him, I have excelled myself throughout the play ; and particularly, that I prefer the scene betwixt Antony and Ventidius in the first act, to anything which I have written in this kind.
第 56 頁 - D'Amboys upon the theatre; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly; nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting; a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words, repetition in abundance, looseness of expression, and gross hyperboles; the sense of one line expanded prodigiously into ten; and, to sum up all, uncorrect English, and a hideous mingle of false poetry and true nonsense; or, at best, a scantling of...
第 483 頁 - What will it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his soul...
第 254 頁 - ... which any poet could desire : I have taken upon me to describe the motives, the beginning, progress, and successes of a most just and necessary war : in it, the care, management, and prudence of our king; the conduct and valour of a royal admiral, and of two incomparable generals; the invincible courage of our captains and seamen; and three glorious victories, the result of all. After this, I have in the Fire the most deplorable, but withal the greatest, argument that can be imagined : the destruction...
第 152 頁 - I cannot conclude this head of mixed wit without owning that the admirable poet out of whom I have taken the examples of it had as much true wit as any author that ever writ, and indeed all other talents of an extraordinary genius. It may be expected, since I am upon this subject, that I should take notice of Mr.
第 20 頁 - And is not this a wretched affectation, not to be contented with what fortune has done for them, and sit down quietly with their estates, but they must call their wits in question, and needlessly expose their nakedness to public view?