Essays of John Dryden: Dedication of Examen poeticum. A discourse concerning the original and progress of satire. A parallel of poetry and painting. Dedication of the Æneis. Translation of Virgil : postscript. Preface to the Fables. Notes. Appendix A (A short history of criticism, by the translation of St. Evremond) Appenidx B (Authorities, critical and historical) IndexClarendon Press, 1900 |
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... Grecian and Roman . Their gods did not only interest themselves in the event of wars , ( which is the effect of a superior providence , ) but also espoused the several parties in a visible corporeal descent , managed their 10 intrigues ...
... Grecian and Roman . Their gods did not only interest themselves in the event of wars , ( which is the effect of a superior providence , ) but also espoused the several parties in a visible corporeal descent , managed their 10 intrigues ...
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... Grecian holidays were celebrated with offerings to Bacchus , and Ceres , and other deities , to whose bounty they supposed they were owing for their corn and wine , and other helps of life . And the ancient Romans , as Horace tells us ...
... Grecian holidays were celebrated with offerings to Bacchus , and Ceres , and other deities , to whose bounty they supposed they were owing for their corn and wine , and other helps of life . And the ancient Romans , as Horace tells us ...
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... Grecian , 5 it was void of art , or , at least , with very feeble begin- nings of it . Those ancient Romans , at these holidays , which were a mixture of devotion and debauchery , had a custom of reproaching each other with their faults ...
... Grecian , 5 it was void of art , or , at least , with very feeble begin- nings of it . Those ancient Romans , at these holidays , which were a mixture of devotion and debauchery , had a custom of reproaching each other with their faults ...
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... Grecian fables , was , that Ulysses , who , with his company , was driven on that 20 coast of Sicily , where those Cyclops inhabited , coming to ask relief from Silenus , and the Satyrs , who were herdsmen to that one - eyed giant , was ...
... Grecian fables , was , that Ulysses , who , with his company , was driven on that 20 coast of Sicily , where those Cyclops inhabited , coming to ask relief from Silenus , and the Satyrs , who were herdsmen to that one - eyed giant , was ...
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... handed , had they been ever the less Satyrs ? Or were the fruits and flowers , which they offered , anything of kin to satire ? Or any argu- 35 5 ment that this poem was originally Grecian ? Casaubon Original and Progress of Satire 53.
... handed , had they been ever the less Satyrs ? Or were the fruits and flowers , which they offered , anything of kin to satire ? Or any argu- 35 5 ment that this poem was originally Grecian ? Casaubon Original and Progress of Satire 53.
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Seite 272 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Seite 258 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil: he is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects; as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace.
Seite 258 - They who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries: there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.
Seite 247 - Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr Waller of Fairfax ; for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families. Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Seite 259 - ... in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses which are lame for want of half a foot and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.
Seite 258 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Seite 272 - ... of which they were not guilty; besides, that he is too much given to horse-play in his raillery, and comes to battle like a dictator from the plough. I will not say, " the zeal of God's house has eaten him up;" but I am sure it has devoured some part of his good manners and civility.
Seite 258 - Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her; and there is a great difference of being poeta and nimis poeta, if we may believe Catullus, as much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; but...
Seite 296 - I have followed all the antique poets historicall: first Homere, who in the persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man...
Seite 262 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass Of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.