The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 |
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Pàgina 6
... ancient lineage came , And both the brother kings your kindred claim ; Yet , my self - conscious worth , your high renown , Your virtue , through the neighbouring nations blown , Our fathers ' mingled blood , Apollo's voice , Have led ...
... ancient lineage came , And both the brother kings your kindred claim ; Yet , my self - conscious worth , your high renown , Your virtue , through the neighbouring nations blown , Our fathers ' mingled blood , Apollo's voice , Have led ...
Pàgina 13
... ancient kings . Then thus the founder of the Roman towers : - " These woods were first the seat of sylvan powers , Of Nymphs and Fauns , and savage men , who took Their birth from trunks of trees and stubborn oak . Nor laws they knew ...
... ancient kings . Then thus the founder of the Roman towers : - " These woods were first the seat of sylvan powers , Of Nymphs and Fauns , and savage men , who took Their birth from trunks of trees and stubborn oak . Nor laws they knew ...
Pàgina 19
... ancient building , and of high renown , Torn from the Tuscans by the Lydian race , Who gave the name of Cære to the place , Once Agyllina called . It flourished long , In pride of wealth and warlike people strong , Till cursed Mezentius ...
... ancient building , and of high renown , Torn from the Tuscans by the Lydian race , Who gave the name of Cære to the place , Once Agyllina called . It flourished long , In pride of wealth and warlike people strong , Till cursed Mezentius ...
Pàgina 72
... ancient city , but of mixed descent : Three several tribes compose the government ; Four towns are under each ; but all obey The Mantuan laws , and own the Tuscan sway . Hate to Mezentius armed five hundred more , Whom Mincius from his ...
... ancient city , but of mixed descent : Three several tribes compose the government ; Four towns are under each ; but all obey The Mantuan laws , and own the Tuscan sway . Hate to Mezentius armed five hundred more , Whom Mincius from his ...
Pàgina 103
... ancient Ro- man families , their descendants --- and as , in the Seventh Book , he mustered the auxiliary forces of the Latins on the same account --- so here he gratifies his Tuscan friends with the like remembrance of their ancestors ...
... ancient Ro- man families , their descendants --- and as , in the Seventh Book , he mustered the auxiliary forces of the Latins on the same account --- so here he gratifies his Tuscan friends with the like remembrance of their ancestors ...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volum 15 John Dryden,Walter Scott Visualització completa - 1821 |
The Works of John Dryden,: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes John Dryden,Walter Scott Visualització completa - 1821 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 353 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Pàgina 339 - A continued gravity keeps the spirit too much bent; we must refresh it sometimes, as we bait in a journey, that we may go on with greater ease.
Pàgina 354 - Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies, we had seen less of it than in him. If there was any fault in his language...
Pàgina 374 - Blank verse is acknowledged to be too low for a poem, nay more, for a paper of verses ; but if too low ~> . for an ordinary sonnet, how much more for tragedy, which is by Aristotle, in the dispute betwixt the epic poesy and the Dramatic, for many reasons he there alleges, ranked above it...
Pàgina 303 - But now, since the rewards of honour are taken away, that virtuous emulation is turned into direct malice, yet so slothful, that it contents itself to condemn and cry down others without attempting to do better.
Pàgina 325 - ... distinct webs in a play, like those in ill-wrought stuffs; and two actions, that is, two plays, carried on together, to the confounding of the audience; who, before they are warm in their concernments for one part, are diverted to another; and by that means espouse the interest of neither.
Pàgina 313 - Oedipus, knew as well as the poet that he had killed his father by a mistake and committed incest with his mother before the play; that they were now to hear of a great plague, an oracle, and the ghost of Laius...
Pàgina 301 - ... expresses so much the conversation of a gentleman, as Sir John Suckling ; nothing so even, sweet, and flowing, as Mr Waller ; nothing so majestic, so correct, as Sir John Denham ; nothing so elevated, so copious, and full of spirit, as Mr Cowley.
Pàgina 352 - Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe : they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection ; what words have since been taken in, are rather superfluous than ornamental. Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage...
Pàgina 321 - Ovid ; he had a way of writing so fit to stir up a pleasing admiration and concernment, which are the objects of a tragedy, and to shew the various movements of a soul combating betwixt two different passions, that, had he lived in our age, or in his own could have writ with our advantages, no man but must have yielded to him...