The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3Little, Brown, & Company; Shepard, Clark & Brown, 1859 |
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Page 52
... verse , This motley garniture of fool and farce , Nor scorn a mode , because ' tis taught at home , Which does , like vests , our gravity become , Our poet yields you should this play refuse : As tradesmen , by the change of fashions ...
... verse , This motley garniture of fool and farce , Nor scorn a mode , because ' tis taught at home , Which does , like vests , our gravity become , Our poet yields you should this play refuse : As tradesmen , by the change of fashions ...
Page 65
... verse can do , he has perform'd in this , Which he presumes the most correct of his ; But spite of all his pride , a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Aw'd when he hears his godlike Romans rage , 15 He , in ...
... verse can do , he has perform'd in this , Which he presumes the most correct of his ; But spite of all his pride , a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Aw'd when he hears his godlike Romans rage , 15 He , in ...
Page 68
... verse , and yours in prose : For , ' faith , the quarrel rightly understood , ' Tis civil war with their own flesh and blood . The threadbare author hates the gaudy coat ; And swears at the gilt coach , but swears afoot ; 10 For ' tis ...
... verse , and yours in prose : For , ' faith , the quarrel rightly understood , ' Tis civil war with their own flesh and blood . The threadbare author hates the gaudy coat ; And swears at the gilt coach , but swears afoot ; 10 For ' tis ...
Page 71
... verse , or said in prose , Then , Edipus , on crowded theatres , Drew all admiring eyes and list'ning ears : The pleas'd spectator shouted every line , The noblest , manliest , and the best design ! And every critic of each learned age ...
... verse , or said in prose , Then , Edipus , on crowded theatres , Drew all admiring eyes and list'ning ears : The pleas'd spectator shouted every line , The noblest , manliest , and the best design ! And every critic of each learned age ...
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... ' em . 30 We'll take no blundering verse , no fustian tumour , No dribbling love , from this or that presumer ; No dull fat fool shamm'd on the stage for humour . For , faith , some of ' em such vile 90 PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES .
... ' em . 30 We'll take no blundering verse , no fustian tumour , No dribbling love , from this or that presumer ; No dull fat fool shamm'd on the stage for humour . For , faith , some of ' em such vile 90 PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES .
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