The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Tom 17A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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Strona 84 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
Strona 261 - The perfection of such stage-characters consists chiefly in their likeness to the deficient faulty nature, which is their original ; only, as it is observed more at large hereafter, in such cases there will always be found a better likeness and a worse, and the better is constantly to be chosen ; I mean in tragedy, which re- presents the figures of the highest form amongst mankind.
Strona 268 - Arts, as I said before, are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature, of that which is wrought up to a nobler pitch. They present us with images more perfect than the life in any individual ; and we have the pleasure to see all the scattered beauties of nature united by a happy chemistry without its deformities or faults.
Strona 258 - Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, And from the canvas call the mimic face, Read these instructive leaves, in which conspire Fresnoy's close art and Dryden's native fire ; And reading wish, like theirs, our fate and fame, So mix'd our studies, and so join'd our name...
Strona 59 - It is not only commended by ancient practice to celebrate the memory of great and worthy men, as the best thanks which posterity can pay them, but also the examples of virtue are of more vigour when they are thus contracted into individuals.
Strona 263 - Preserved; but I must bear this testimony to his memory, that the passions are truly touched in it, though, perhaps there is somewhat to be desired both in the grounds of them, and in the height and elegance of expression ; but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty.
Strona 205 - What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?' Remember how often Paul appeals to his holy, just, unblameable life.
Strona 188 - England, who both told me there were many things in the Roman church, which, it were, very much to be wished we had kept ; as confession, which was, no doubt, commanded by God : that praying for the dead was One of the ancient things in Christianity : that, for their parts, they did it daily, though they would not own it...
Strona 257 - ... like an orator than a soldier ; and seems to dissuade the young man from pulling on his destiny, by attempting more than he was able to perform. Take the passage as I have thus translated it : Shouts of applause ran ringing through the field...
Strona 269 - Without invention, a painter is but a copier, and a poet but a plagiary of others. Both are allowed sometimes to copy, and translate ; but, as our author tells you, that is not the best part of their reputation. " Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle...