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... Charles pronounced , " That Mr. Cowley had not left behind him a better man in England . " He is represented by Dr ... Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit , but maintains that they ...
... Charles pronounced , " That Mr. Cowley had not left behind him a better man in England . " He is represented by Dr ... Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit , but maintains that they ...
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... Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . His great work is his Essay on Translated Verse ; of which Dryden writes thus in the preface to his Miscellanies : 86 " It was my Lord ...
... Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . His great work is his Essay on Translated Verse ; of which Dryden writes thus in the preface to his Miscellanies : 86 " It was my Lord ...
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... Dryden . In return , succeeding poets have borrowed from Roscommon . In the verses on the Lap - dog , the pronouns ... Charles Cotterel , has given the history . " Lord Roscommon , " says she , " is certainly one of the most promising ...
... Dryden . In return , succeeding poets have borrowed from Roscommon . In the verses on the Lap - dog , the pronouns ... Charles Cotterel , has given the history . " Lord Roscommon , " says she , " is certainly one of the most promising ...
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... Dryden and Sprat wrote on the same occa → sion ; but they were young men , struggling into notice , and hoping for ... Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , without some contempt and indignation , poems of the same author , ...
... Dryden and Sprat wrote on the same occa → sion ; but they were young men , struggling into notice , and hoping for ... Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , without some contempt and indignation , poems of the same author , ...
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... Charles the First , from an hundred marks to one hun- dred pounds a year ... Dryden in conjunction with Davenant , " whom , " says he , " I found of so ... Dryden seems to have had his quiet much dis- turbed by the success of the Empress ...
... Charles the First , from an hundred marks to one hun- dred pounds a year ... Dryden in conjunction with Davenant , " whom , " says he , " I found of so ... Dryden seems to have had his quiet much dis- turbed by the success of the Empress ...
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Strona 565 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Strona 559 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Strona 11 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Strona 82 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Strona 218 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Strona 559 - ... nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude.
Strona 205 - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction : no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.
Strona 524 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Strona 36 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Strona 560 - ... is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;- the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical...