The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations, 3권Cadell and Davies, 1800 - 662페이지 |
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... instructive , I had either omitted some part of what he said , or taken from the strength of his expression , I certainly had wronged him ; and that freeness of thought and words being thus cashiered in my hands , he had no longer been ...
... instructive , I had either omitted some part of what he said , or taken from the strength of his expression , I certainly had wronged him ; and that freeness of thought and words being thus cashiered in my hands , he had no longer been ...
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... instructive of any that are written in this art , nor his Satires , which are in- comparably beyond Juvenal's , ( if to laugh and rally is to be preferred to railing and declaiming , ) are no part of my present undertaking , ' I confine ...
... instructive of any that are written in this art , nor his Satires , which are in- comparably beyond Juvenal's , ( if to laugh and rally is to be preferred to railing and declaiming , ) are no part of my present undertaking , ' I confine ...
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... instructive , the latter forms a hero , and a prince . -- If it signifies any thing , which of them is of the more ancient family , the best and most absolute heroick poem was written by Homer , long before tragedy was invented . But if ...
... instructive , the latter forms a hero , and a prince . -- If it signifies any thing , which of them is of the more ancient family , the best and most absolute heroick poem was written by Homer , long before tragedy was invented . But if ...
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... instructive ; he therefore , who instructs most usefully , will carry the palm from his two antagonists . The philosophy in which Persius was educated , and which he professes through his whole book , is the Stoick ; the most noble ...
... instructive ; he therefore , who instructs most usefully , will carry the palm from his two antagonists . The philosophy in which Persius was educated , and which he professes through his whole book , is the Stoick ; the most noble ...
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... instructive : but they are sprinkled here and there . Horace is tcaching us in every line , and is perpetually moral : he had found out the skill of Virgil , to hide his sentences ; to give you the virtue of them , without shewing them ...
... instructive : but they are sprinkled here and there . Horace is tcaching us in every line , and is perpetually moral : he had found out the skill of Virgil , to hide his sentences ; to give you the virtue of them , without shewing them ...
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214 페이지 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds...
610 페이지 - I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him : for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting...
189 페이지 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
14 페이지 - The third way is that of imitation, where the translator, if now he has not lost that name, assumes the liberty not only to vary from the words and sense, but to forsake them both, as he sees occasion : and taking only some general hints from the original, to run division on the ground-work, as he pleases.
627 페이지 - Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks, and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns; 'for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
605 페이지 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
648 페이지 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and 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.
629 페이지 - Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse as neighe as ever he can : Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he, never so rudely and so large : Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe : He may not spare, although he were his brother, He moste as wel sayn o word as an other.
409 페이지 - And they did chide with him sharply. 2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
593 페이지 - What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose...