 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1174 pàgines
...that memorable day, in the first summer of the late war, when our navy engaged the Dutch — a clay lay he musing at her mood, While these vast floating bodies, on either side, moved against each other in parallel lines, and our... | |
 | Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - 1914 - 514 pàgines
...stage against the French and to plead for the use of rime in tragedy. This is how it begins : It was that memorable day, in the first summer of the late...commerce of nations, and the riches of the universe. Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Arnold are the only other poets whose literary criticism is so penetrating.... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 pàgines
...The Secular Masque, 1700. 143 Of Dramatic Poesy AN ESSAY 1668; revised 1684 The Introduction IT was that memorable day, in the first summer of the late...commerce of nations, and the riches of the universe. While these vast floating bodies, on either side, moved against each other in parallel lines, and our... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 pàgines
...the late War, when our Navy engaged the Dutch ; a day wherein the two most mighty and best-appointed Fleets which any age had ever seen, disputed the command...commerce of nations, and the riches of the Universe. While these vast floating bodies, on either side, moved against each other in parallel linesj and our... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1928 - 120 pàgines
...Dramatick Poesie. IT was that memorable day, in the first Summer of the late War, when our Navy ingag'd the Dutch : a day wherein the two most mighty and...commerce of Nations, and the riches of the Universe. While these vast floating bodies, on either side, mov'd against each other in parallel lines, and our... | |
 | Christopher Hill - 1980 - 116 pàgines
...Dramatic Poesy in 1668, he tells us that it took place during the second Dutch War, on "that memorable day . . . wherein the two most mighty and best appointed...commerce of nations, and the riches of the universe." It would have been totally impossible for an aspiring young man of letters to have written in such... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 pàgines
...1966: Trowbridge 1946: Williamson 1946. From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy* It was that memorable day,6 in the first summer of the late war, when our navy...commerce of nations, and the riches of the universe, While these vast floating bodies, on either side, moved against each other in parallel lines, and our... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Smuts - 1996 - 314 pàgines
...was that memorable day, in the first Summer of the late War', Dryden begins, 'when our Navy ingag'd the Dutch: a day wherein the two most mighty and best...Globe, the commerce of Nations, and the riches of the Universe'.10 The essay then translates this premise into the rivalry over cultural capital provoked... | |
 | Steven C. A. Pincus - 2002 - 528 pàgines
...eloquently summed up the commonplace view of the war, a view which claimed that the English and Dutch fleets "disputed the command of the greater half of the globe,...commerce of nations, and the riches of the universe." Naturally the Dutch had not risen to these lofty political heights merely through economic virtue.... | |
 | James Fenton - 2003 - 288 pàgines
...the first Summer of the late War, when our navy engag'd the Dutch: a day wherein the two most mightiy and best appointed Fleets which any age had ever seen,...commerce of Nations, and the riches of the Universe. While these vast floating bodies, on either side, moved against each other in parallel lines, and our... | |
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It was that memorable day in the first summer of the late war when our navy engaged the Dutch — a day wherein the two most mighty and best appointed fleets which any age had ever seen disputed the command of the greater half of the globe, the commerce... 
