The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Tom 17William Miller, 1808 |
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Strona 7
... desire I have always had to shew my devo- tion to your Grace , though I despair of paying you my acknowledgments . And of all other opportu- nities , I have happened on the most favourable to myself , who , having never been able to ...
... desire I have always had to shew my devo- tion to your Grace , though I despair of paying you my acknowledgments . And of all other opportu- nities , I have happened on the most favourable to myself , who , having never been able to ...
Strona 26
... desires to have his own consul- ship written by his friend in the Grecian language , which he afterwards performed himself ; a vain at- tempt , in my opinion , for any man to endeavour to excel in a tongue which he was not born to speak ...
... desires to have his own consul- ship written by his friend in the Grecian language , which he afterwards performed himself ; a vain at- tempt , in my opinion , for any man to endeavour to excel in a tongue which he was not born to speak ...
Strona 27
... desire , and earnest ap- plication of mind , their wise instructions ; and it was also his prudence so to manage his health by moderation of diet and bodily exercise , as to pre- serve his parts without decay to a great old age ; to be ...
... desire , and earnest ap- plication of mind , their wise instructions ; and it was also his prudence so to manage his health by moderation of diet and bodily exercise , as to pre- serve his parts without decay to a great old age ; to be ...
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... desire he had to imprint his precepts in the souls of his readers , and to lodge morality in families , nay even to exalt it to the thrones of sove- reign princes , and to make it the rule and mea- sure of their government . Finding ...
... desire he had to imprint his precepts in the souls of his readers , and to lodge morality in families , nay even to exalt it to the thrones of sove- reign princes , and to make it the rule and mea- sure of their government . Finding ...
Strona 41
... desire of revenge ; which qualities of his , as they have been praised by the authority of other writers , may also be recommended from his own testimony of himself : - " I had rather ( says he ) be forgotten in the memory of men , and ...
... desire of revenge ; which qualities of his , as they have been praised by the authority of other writers , may also be recommended from his own testimony of himself : - " I had rather ( says he ) be forgotten in the memory of men , and ...
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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 85 - And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times ; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it ; whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
Strona 76 - Plutarch, to thy deathless praise Does martial Rome this grateful statue raise ; Because both Greece and she thy fame have shared, (Their heroes written, and their lives compared ;) But thou thyself could'st never write thy own ; Their lives have parallels, but thine has none.
Strona 279 - Oh lasting as those colours may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line ; New graces yearly like thy works display, • Soft without weakness, without glaring gay; Led by some rule, that guides, but not constrains; And finish'd more through happiness than pains.
Strona 319 - 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 207 - 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 309 - ... cattle," says the Poet: or at best, the keepers of cattle for other men : they have nothing which is properly their own ; that is a sufficient mortification for me, while I am translating Virgil. But to copy the best author is a kind of praise if I perform it as I ought; as a copy after Raphael is more to be commended than an original of any indifferent Painter. Under this head of invention is placed the disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole...
Strona 293 - 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.preseuts the figures of the highest fonn amongst mankind.
Strona 303 - After all, it is a good thing to laugh at any rate ; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh: and, as Sir William Davenant observes, in his Preface to Gondibert, " It is the wisdom of a government to permit plays, (he might have added farces,) as it is the prudence of a carter to put bells upon his horses to make them carry their burdens cheerfully.
Strona 309 - 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...