The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina v
... Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have fol- lowed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and , if I fhall hereafter obtain a more correct A 3 correct chronology , will publish it ; but I do ( v )
... Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have fol- lowed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and , if I fhall hereafter obtain a more correct A 3 correct chronology , will publish it ; but I do ( v )
Pàgina vi
... Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been fomewhere + printed before . The former edi- tion I have not feen . This was tranfcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript . As this undertaking was occafional and un- foreseen , I must be ...
... Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been fomewhere + printed before . The former edi- tion I have not feen . This was tranfcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript . As this undertaking was occafional and un- foreseen , I must be ...
Pàgina 9
... DRYDEN . Æneid XI . 152 O Pallas , thou has fail'd thy plighted word , To fight with caution , not to tempt the fword ; I warn'd thee , but in vain , for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; That boiling blood would ...
... DRYDEN . Æneid XI . 152 O Pallas , thou has fail'd thy plighted word , To fight with caution , not to tempt the fword ; I warn'd thee , but in vain , for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; That boiling blood would ...
Pàgina 37
... Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou feeft me here at midnight , now all reft : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's bufinefs ; when the labourers have Such reft in bed , that their last ...
... Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou feeft me here at midnight , now all reft : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's bufinefs ; when the labourers have Such reft in bed , that their last ...
Pàgina 69
... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He confidered the verse of twelve fyllables as elevated and majeftick , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being ...
... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He confidered the verse of twelve fyllables as elevated and majeftick , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being ...
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