The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 |
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Pàgina 2
... , oppressed with grief , And found , in silent slumber , late relief . Then , through the shadows of the poplar wood , Arose the father of the Roman flood ; * Note I. An azure robe was o'er his body spread , A 2 ENEÏS , VIII .
... , oppressed with grief , And found , in silent slumber , late relief . Then , through the shadows of the poplar wood , Arose the father of the Roman flood ; * Note I. An azure robe was o'er his body spread , A 2 ENEÏS , VIII .
Pàgina 3
... o'er his body spread , A wreath of shady reeds adorned his head : Thus , manifest to sight , the god appeared , And with these pleasing words his sorrow cheered : - " Undoubted offspring of etherial race , O long expected in this ...
... o'er his body spread , A wreath of shady reeds adorned his head : Thus , manifest to sight , the god appeared , And with these pleasing words his sorrow cheered : - " Undoubted offspring of etherial race , O long expected in this ...
Pàgina 8
... o'er the bed , A lion's shaggy hide , for ornament , they spread . The loaves were served in canisters ; the wine In bowls ; the priest renewed the rites divine : Broiled entrails are their food , and beef's continued chine . But , when ...
... o'er the bed , A lion's shaggy hide , for ornament , they spread . The loaves were served in canisters ; the wine In bowls ; the priest renewed the rites divine : Broiled entrails are their food , and beef's continued chine . But , when ...
Pàgina 10
... o'er the flood , And nodded to the left . The hero stood Averse , with planted feet , and , from the right , Tugged at the solid stone with all his might . Thus heaved , the fixed foundations of the rock Gave way ; heaven echoed at the ...
... o'er the flood , And nodded to the left . The hero stood Averse , with planted feet , and , from the right , Tugged at the solid stone with all his might . Thus heaved , the fixed foundations of the rock Gave way ; heaven echoed at the ...
Pàgina 18
... o'er his shoulder throws a panther's hide . Two menial dogs before their master press'd . Thus clad , and guarded thus , he seeks his kingly guest . Mindful of promised aid , he mends his pace , But meets Æneas in the middle space ...
... o'er his shoulder throws a panther's hide . Two menial dogs before their master press'd . Thus clad , and guarded thus , he seeks his kingly guest . Mindful of promised aid , he mends his pace , But meets Æneas in the middle space ...
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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...