The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Band 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... in it except the worst part of it - the rhyme , and that far from being unexceptionable . The following lines , in which the poet describes the death of Lord Has- tings by the small - pox , will be probably 2 32 LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
... in it except the worst part of it - the rhyme , and that far from being unexceptionable . The following lines , in which the poet describes the death of Lord Has- tings by the small - pox , will be probably 2 32 LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
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... rhyme , more noble , and of greater dignity , both for * Vol . III . p . 101 . + Davenant alleges the advantages of a respite and pause be- tween every stanza , which should be so constructed as to com- prehend a period ; and adds ...
... rhyme , more noble , and of greater dignity , both for * Vol . III . p . 101 . + Davenant alleges the advantages of a respite and pause be- tween every stanza , which should be so constructed as to com- prehend a period ; and adds ...
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... be called a measure ) was no longer tolerated , and it was expected , even of those who wrote satires , lampoons , and occasional verses , that their rhymes should be rhymes , both to the ear and eye 62 LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
... be called a measure ) was no longer tolerated , and it was expected , even of those who wrote satires , lampoons , and occasional verses , that their rhymes should be rhymes , both to the ear and eye 62 LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
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Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes John Dryden Walter Scott. should be rhymes , both to the ear and eye ; and that they should neither adore their mistresses , nor abuse their neighbours , in lines which dif- fered only from prose ...
Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes John Dryden Walter Scott. should be rhymes , both to the ear and eye ; and that they should neither adore their mistresses , nor abuse their neighbours , in lines which dif- fered only from prose ...
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... Rhyming or Heroic Plays . In that country , however , con- trary to the general manners of the people , a sort of stately and precise ceremonial early took pos- session of the theatre . The French dramatist was under the necessity of ...
... Rhyming or Heroic Plays . In that country , however , con- trary to the general manners of the people , a sort of stately and precise ceremonial early took pos- session of the theatre . The French dramatist was under the necessity of ...
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Seite 170 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Seite 169 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Seite 311 - Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Seite 313 - But, gracious God ! how well dost thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the' abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.
Seite 189 - His style is boisterous and rough-hewn, his rhyme incorrigibly lewd, and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill-sounding. The little talent which he has, is fancy. He sometimes labours with a thought ; but, with the pudder he makes to bring it into the world...
Seite 123 - 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.
Seite 447 - Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage ; and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment.
Seite 111 - Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.
Seite 8 - England* began first that language; all our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court which could not parley Euphuism...
Seite 473 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.