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... give the reader my author , and not what I have to say about him . The office of Vεwкóρos is a comparatively humble one in itself , but it is honourable enough when the shrine is at once the work and the monument of two such masters of ...
... give the reader my author , and not what I have to say about him . The office of Vεwкóρos is a comparatively humble one in itself , but it is honourable enough when the shrine is at once the work and the monument of two such masters of ...
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... give o'er , And let our curses call thee forth no more . ' " ' * Elegy on Lady Haddington , in Corbet's Poems , p . 121 . Gilchrist's edition . After leaving the university , our author entered the world 28 SECT . I. LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
... give o'er , And let our curses call thee forth no more . ' " ' * Elegy on Lady Haddington , in Corbet's Poems , p . 121 . Gilchrist's edition . After leaving the university , our author entered the world 28 SECT . I. LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
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... and then prayed me to assure you , that he would , upon all occasions , be most ready to give you the marks of his affection , may therefore believe , that Dryden received some compliment from SECT . I. 43 LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
... and then prayed me to assure you , that he would , upon all occasions , be most ready to give you the marks of his affection , may therefore believe , that Dryden received some compliment from SECT . I. 43 LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
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... gives himself the trouble of reclaiming his property , except in a sketch of the connection between the " Indian Queen , " and " Indian Em- peror , " where he simply states , that he wrote a part of the former . The " Indian Queen " was ...
... gives himself the trouble of reclaiming his property , except in a sketch of the connection between the " Indian Queen , " and " Indian Em- peror , " where he simply states , that he wrote a part of the former . The " Indian Queen " was ...
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... give exact dates , the preface to Sir R. Howard is dated November 10th , 1666. The poem appeared immediately afterwards . Pepys bought it on the 2d of February , and pronounced it " a very good poem . " Some other dates and facts of a ...
... give exact dates , the preface to Sir R. Howard is dated November 10th , 1666. The poem appeared immediately afterwards . Pepys bought it on the 2d of February , and pronounced it " a very good poem . " Some other dates and facts of a ...
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Page 265 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 143 - But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 397 - Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform ; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller.
Page 23 - Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university ; Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age.
Page 106 - This last is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility.
Page 139 - ... one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
Page 394 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, , To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. . '• ' Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Page 121 - Melantha is as finished an impertinent as ever fluttered in a drawing-room, and seems to contain the most complete system of female foppery, that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady.
Page 105 - I boldly answer him that an heroic poet is not tied to a bare representation of what is true, or exceeding probable : but that he may let himself loose to visionary objects, and to the representation of such things as, depending not on sense and therefore not to be comprehended by knowledge, may give him a freer scope for imagination.
Page 263 - But I was unable to resist the weight of historical evidence that within the same period most of the leading doctrines of popery were already introduced in theory and practice ; nor was my conclusion absurd, that miracles are the test of truth, and that the Church must be orthodox and pure which was so often approved by the visible interposition of the Deity.