The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 76
עמוד 4
... king of horned floods , whose plenteous urn Suffices fatness to the fruitful corn , For this thy kind compassion of our woes , Shalt share my morning song , and evening vows . But , oh ! be present to thy people's aid , And firm the ...
... king of horned floods , whose plenteous urn Suffices fatness to the fruitful corn , For this thy kind compassion of our woes , Shalt share my morning song , and evening vows . But , oh ! be present to thy people's aid , And firm the ...
עמוד 5
... king and prince , without the city gates , Then paid their offerings in a sacred grove To Hercules , the warrior son of Jove . Thick clouds of rolling smoke involve the skies , And fat of entrails on his altar fries . But , when they ...
... king and prince , without the city gates , Then paid their offerings in a sacred grove To Hercules , the warrior son of Jove . Thick clouds of rolling smoke involve the skies , And fat of entrails on his altar fries . But , when they ...
עמוד 6
... 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 guest , and , what you wish , a friend . " He said , and , downward ...
... 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 guest , and , what you wish , a friend . " He said , and , downward ...
עמוד 8
... king , From no va fears or superstition spring , Or blind devotion , or from blinder chance , Or heady zeal , or brutal ignorance : But , saved from danger , with a grateful sense , The labours of a god we recompense . See , from afar ...
... king , From no va fears or superstition spring , Or blind devotion , or from blinder chance , Or heady zeal , or brutal ignorance : But , saved from danger , with a grateful sense , The labours of a god we recompense . See , from afar ...
עמוד 15
... king bespoke his Trojan guest : - " Mean as it is , this palace , and this door , Received Alcides , then a conqueror . Dare to be poor ; accept our homely food , Which feasted him , and emulate a god . " Then underneath a lowly roof he ...
... king bespoke his Trojan guest : - " Mean as it is , this palace , and this door , Received Alcides , then a conqueror . Dare to be poor ; accept our homely food , Which feasted him , and emulate a god . " Then underneath a lowly roof he ...
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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
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עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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...