The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3W. Pickering, 1832 |
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... numbers join , Thy words will more prevail than mine . To souls oppress'd , and dumb with grief , The gods ordain this kind relief ; That music should in sounds convey What dying lovers dare not say . 15 5 A sigh or tear , perhaps , she ...
... numbers join , Thy words will more prevail than mine . To souls oppress'd , and dumb with grief , The gods ordain this kind relief ; That music should in sounds convey What dying lovers dare not say . 15 5 A sigh or tear , perhaps , she ...
Page 121
... numbers ; for , though all these are exceeding difficult to perform , there yet remains a harder task ; and ' tis a secret of which few translators have suffi- ciently thought . I have already hinted a word or two con- cerning it ; that ...
... numbers ; for , though all these are exceeding difficult to perform , there yet remains a harder task ; and ' tis a secret of which few translators have suffi- ciently thought . I have already hinted a word or two con- cerning it ; that ...
Page 122
... numbers are perpetually varied , to in- crease the delight of the reader ; so that the same sounds are never repeated twice together . On the contrary , Ovid and Claudian , though they write in styles differing from each other , yet ...
... numbers are perpetually varied , to in- crease the delight of the reader ; so that the same sounds are never repeated twice together . On the contrary , Ovid and Claudian , though they write in styles differing from each other , yet ...
Page 124
... numbers , and his gravity , I have as far imitated as the poverty of our language and the hastiness of my performance would allow . I may seem sometimes to have varied from his sense ; but I think the greatest variations may be fairly ...
... numbers , and his gravity , I have as far imitated as the poverty of our language and the hastiness of my performance would allow . I may seem sometimes to have varied from his sense ; but I think the greatest variations may be fairly ...
Page 130
... mind modestly , and without injury to his sacred ashes , somewhat of the purity of the English , somewhat of more equal thoughts , somewhat of sweetness in the numbers , ( I bo in one word , somewhat of a finer turn , 130.
... mind modestly , and without injury to his sacred ashes , somewhat of the purity of the English , somewhat of more equal thoughts , somewhat of sweetness in the numbers , ( I bo in one word , somewhat of a finer turn , 130.
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