The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Том 3T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... occasion it : nay he tells us plainly , that his offence was that of errour only , not of wickedness ; and in the 8 words above quoted , ut renovem tua vulnera , Cæsar , ) strongly militate against this solution of the mysterious cause ...
... occasion it : nay he tells us plainly , that his offence was that of errour only , not of wickedness ; and in the 8 words above quoted , ut renovem tua vulnera , Cæsar , ) strongly militate against this solution of the mysterious cause ...
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... occasion to his translators , who dare not cover him , to blush at the nakedness of their father . This then is the allay of Ovid's writing , which is sufficiently recompensed by his other excel- lencies : nay this very fault is not ...
... occasion to his translators , who dare not cover him , to blush at the nakedness of their father . This then is the allay of Ovid's writing , which is sufficiently recompensed by his other excel- lencies : nay this very fault is not ...
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... now he has not lost that name ) assumes the liberty not only to vary from the words and sense , but to forsake them both , as he sees occasion ; and taking only some general hints from the original , to run divi- 14 PREFACE TO.
... now he has not lost that name ) assumes the liberty not only to vary from the words and sense , but to forsake them both , as he sees occasion ; and taking only some general hints from the original , to run divi- 14 PREFACE TO.
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... occasion to be ashamed , who do . For my own part , I am ready to acknowledge , that I have transgressed the rules which I have given , and taken more liberty than a just transla- tion will allow . But so many gentlemen , whose wit and ...
... occasion to be ashamed , who do . For my own part , I am ready to acknowledge , that I have transgressed the rules which I have given , and taken more liberty than a just transla- tion will allow . But so many gentlemen , whose wit and ...
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... occasion of it . It was my Lord Roscommon's Essay on translated Verse , which made me uneasy till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules , and of reducing the speculation into practice . For many a fair precept in ...
... occasion of it . It was my Lord Roscommon's Essay on translated Verse , which made me uneasy till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules , and of reducing the speculation into practice . For many a fair precept in ...
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Страница 214 - 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...
Страница 214 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Страница 629 - Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks, and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns; 'for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
Страница 214 - 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 starlight, without thee is sweet.
Страница 607 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Страница 187 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily 1 but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms...
Страница 650 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Страница 189 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing...
Страница 595 - What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose...
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