The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations, 1권,파트 1Cadell and Davies, 1800 - 442페이지 |
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... Jacob Tonson , from whom these papers descended to that gentleman : which , beside exhibiting a lively portrait of this great poet , contain some curious documents re- specting the price of his works , and some other interesting ...
... Jacob Tonson , from whom these papers descended to that gentleman : which , beside exhibiting a lively portrait of this great poet , contain some curious documents re- specting the price of his works , and some other interesting ...
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... Jacob , and others , have made the same observation . " It may be presumed , ( says Jacob ) that his genius did not lead him early to poetry , by reason he was above thirty years old , before he obliged the world with his first ...
... Jacob , and others , have made the same observation . " It may be presumed , ( says Jacob ) that his genius did not lead him early to poetry , by reason he was above thirty years old , before he obliged the world with his first ...
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... Jacob , that in one year ( 1678 ) he published AIL FOR LOVE , ASSIGNATION , two parts of THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA , SIR MARTIN MARALL , and THE STATE OF INNOCENCE , six complete plays ; with a celerity of execution , which , though all ...
... Jacob , that in one year ( 1678 ) he published AIL FOR LOVE , ASSIGNATION , two parts of THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA , SIR MARTIN MARALL , and THE STATE OF INNOCENCE , six complete plays ; with a celerity of execution , which , though all ...
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... January 6 , 1669-70 , at which time it was printed , we know See a Letter to Jacob Tonson , the Appending , written by our author about the year 1696 . from the epilogue , was acted in 1667. SIR MAR- 92 THE LIFE OF 1 ...
... January 6 , 1669-70 , at which time it was printed , we know See a Letter to Jacob Tonson , the Appending , written by our author about the year 1696 . from the epilogue , was acted in 1667. SIR MAR- 92 THE LIFE OF 1 ...
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... Jacob Tonson , now become our author's bookseller , April 14 , 1679 , and on the 18th of the following June the Critical Essay was separately registered , having probably been written in the intervening period . Our author's pension ...
... Jacob Tonson , now become our author's bookseller , April 14 , 1679 , and on the 18th of the following June the Critical Essay was separately registered , having probably been written in the intervening period . Our author's pension ...
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ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL Æneid afterwards anecdote appears Baronet Bayes bookseller Cecilia's day celebrated Charles Charles Dryden Coffee-house comedy Congreve copy death Dedication died Dorset dramatick Duke Earl Earl of Berkshire edition English entitled Erasmus errour Essay father favour funeral furnished gentleman Gilbert Pickering Henry Henry Purcell honour Howard Jacob Tonson Jeremiah Clarke John Dryden Johnson King King's Lady Elizabeth late letter lived Lockier London London Gazette Lord LOVE MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE Master mentioned MISCELLANY Muse never Northamptonshire observed occasion original performed perhaps person Pickering piece play poem Poet Laureate poet's poetical poetry Pope portrait pounds Preface prefixed printed probably Prologue publick published Purcell Queen satire says set to musick Shadwell shew Sir John Sir Robert Sir Robert Howard song supposed theatre Thomas thou tion translation TYRANNICK LOVE verses Virgil William write written wrote
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392 페이지 - He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
xviii 페이지 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous : what is little is gay; what is great is splendid.
304 페이지 - Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse, Soft pity to infuse ; He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate, Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...
153 페이지 - One day as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, ' If I was a poet, (and I think I am poor enough to be one,) I would write a poem on such a subject in the following manner,' and then gave him the plan for it.
525 페이지 - is Tonson. You will take care not to depart before he goes away : for I have not completed the sheet which I promised him ; and if you leave me unprotected, I must suffer all the rudeness to which his resentment can prompt his tongue.
viii 페이지 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
62 페이지 - Neander, to be in company together; three of them persons whom their wit and quality have made known to all the town; and whom I have chose to hide under these borrowed names, that they may not suffer by so ill a relation as I am going to make of their discourse.
x 페이지 - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
303 페이지 - The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again : At length, with love and wine at once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast.
257 페이지 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.