The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 |
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Pàgina 6
... bear : -The Trojans and their chief Bring holy peace , and beg the king's relief . " Struck with so great a name , and all on fire , The youth replies : - " Whatever you require , Your fame exacts . Upon our shores descend , A welcome ...
... bear : -The Trojans and their chief Bring holy peace , and beg the king's relief . " Struck with so great a name , and all on fire , The youth replies : - " Whatever you require , Your fame exacts . Upon our shores descend , A welcome ...
Pàgina 12
... bear the burden of the song . The lay records the labours , and the praise , And all the immortal acts of Hercules : First , how the mighty babe , when swathed in bands , The serpents strangled with his infant hands ; Then , as in years ...
... bear the burden of the song . The lay records the labours , and the praise , And all the immortal acts of Hercules : First , how the mighty babe , when swathed in bands , The serpents strangled with his infant hands ; Then , as in years ...
Pàgina 15
... bears o'erspread . Now night had shed her silver dews around , And with her sable wings embraced the ground , When love's fair goddess , anxious for her son , ( New tumults rising , and new wars begun , ) Couched with her husband in his ...
... bears o'erspread . Now night had shed her silver dews around , And with her sable wings embraced the ground , When love's fair goddess , anxious for her son , ( New tumults rising , and new wars begun , ) Couched with her husband in his ...
Pàgina 26
... bear . Far hence removed , the Stygian seats are seen ; Pains of the damned , and punished Catiline , Hung on a rock - the traitor ; and , around , The Furies hissing from the nether ground . Apart from these , the happy souls he draws ...
... bear . Far hence removed , the Stygian seats are seen ; Pains of the damned , and punished Catiline , Hung on a rock - the traitor ; and , around , The Furies hissing from the nether ground . Apart from these , the happy souls he draws ...
Pàgina 28
... and by Venus brought , With joy and wonder fill the hero's thought . Unknown the names , he yet admires the grace , And bears aloft the fame and fortune of his race . NOTES ON ENEÏS , BOOK VIII . Note I. So 28 ENEÏS , VIII .
... and by Venus brought , With joy and wonder fill the hero's thought . Unknown the names , he yet admires the grace , And bears aloft the fame and fortune of his race . NOTES ON ENEÏS , BOOK VIII . Note I. So 28 ENEÏS , VIII .
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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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Æneas ancients Arcadian Aristotle arms Ascanius audience Ausonian bear Ben Jonson betwixt blank verse blood breast comedy coursers Crites dare dart death Dryden English Eugenius eyes fame fatal fate father fault favour fear field fierce fight fire flames flies flood foes fool force French friends goddess gods grace ground hand haste head heaven hero honour humour javelins Jonson Jove Juturna king labour lance Latian Lausus Lisideius Lord Messapus Mezentius mighty mind Mnestheus muse nature never numbers o'er Pallas passions peace persons plain play pleased plot poem poesy poet poetry prince rage rest rhyme rolling Rutulians sacred satire scene Sejanus sense shew shield sight Silent Woman Sir Robert Howard sire slain soul sound spear stage sword Tarchon thee thou thought town tragedy trembling Trojan troops Turnus Tuscan Virgil vows winds words wound writ write youth
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...