The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose, Volume 1Harper, 1847 |
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Page viii
... less offensive ; like a harmonious glazing to a picture , it served to keep all the poetic colours in tone . With the disuse of rhyme , an alteration took place in the other consti- tuents of the drama , in the sentiments , the figures ...
... less offensive ; like a harmonious glazing to a picture , it served to keep all the poetic colours in tone . With the disuse of rhyme , an alteration took place in the other consti- tuents of the drama , in the sentiments , the figures ...
Page viii
... less displeasing termination . Some passages are extravagantly absurd , as ' As if our old world modestly withdrew , And here in private had brought forth a new . ' And . In Shakspeare and in the tragedies of the elder dramatists , the ...
... less displeasing termination . Some passages are extravagantly absurd , as ' As if our old world modestly withdrew , And here in private had brought forth a new . ' And . In Shakspeare and in the tragedies of the elder dramatists , the ...
Page ix
... less . Your very Humble Servant . P. S. If you will meet me in the Old Exchange , about six o'clock , I will justify myselfe . ' The above is a letter from the Lady Elizabeth Howard , daughter to the Earl of Berkshire , to Phi- lip ...
... less . Your very Humble Servant . P. S. If you will meet me in the Old Exchange , about six o'clock , I will justify myselfe . ' The above is a letter from the Lady Elizabeth Howard , daughter to the Earl of Berkshire , to Phi- lip ...
Page xiv
... less a period , said , than ten years , were employed by them in collecting their stores of ri dicule , and pointing their shafts of wit . ' With transcribing of these , and translating those , With transmuting of rhyme , and ...
... less a period , said , than ten years , were employed by them in collecting their stores of ri dicule , and pointing their shafts of wit . ' With transcribing of these , and translating those , With transmuting of rhyme , and ...
Page xvi
... less directly done in that of the Marriage - à - la - Mode . Hence the exquisite pleasure which Ravenscroft received at its failure , as appears in the prologue to his ' Careless Lovers . ' Of this gentleman's taste , Scott says , it ...
... less directly done in that of the Marriage - à - la - Mode . Hence the exquisite pleasure which Ravenscroft received at its failure , as appears in the prologue to his ' Careless Lovers . ' Of this gentleman's taste , Scott says , it ...
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