The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 25
עמוד 15
... move , Inspires each accent with the charms of love :: " While cruel fate conspired with Grecian powers , To level with the ground the Trojan towers , I asked not aid the unhappy to restore , Nor did the succour of thy skill implore ...
... move , Inspires each accent with the charms of love :: " While cruel fate conspired with Grecian powers , To level with the ground the Trojan towers , I asked not aid the unhappy to restore , Nor did the succour of thy skill implore ...
עמוד 31
... move , majestically slow , Like ebbing Nile , or Ganges in his flow . The Trojans view the dusty cloud from far , And the dark menace of the distant war . Caïcus from the rampire saw it rise , Blackening the fields , and thickening ...
... move , majestically slow , Like ebbing Nile , or Ganges in his flow . The Trojans view the dusty cloud from far , And the dark menace of the distant war . Caïcus from the rampire saw it rise , Blackening the fields , and thickening ...
עמוד 79
... move their minds , with those to fire their force . } " Which way , companions ? whither would you run ? By you yourselves , and mighty battles won , By my great sire , by his established name , And early promise of my future fame ; By ...
... move their minds , with those to fire their force . } " Which way , companions ? whither would you run ? By you yourselves , and mighty battles won , By my great sire , by his established name , And early promise of my future fame ; By ...
עמוד 117
... move , And violate with wounds the queen of love . Such arms this hand shall never more employ . No hate remains with me to ruined Troy . I war not with its dust ; nor am I glad To think of past events , or good or bad . Your presents I ...
... move , And violate with wounds the queen of love . Such arms this hand shall never more employ . No hate remains with me to ruined Troy . I war not with its dust ; nor am I glad To think of past events , or good or bad . Your presents I ...
עמוד 179
... lie ! " The champion shook his head , and made this short reply : - " No threats of thine my manly mind can move ; " Tis hostile heaven I dread , and partial Jove . " He said no more , but , with a sigh ENEÏS , XII . 179.
... lie ! " The champion shook his head , and made this short reply : - " No threats of thine my manly mind can move ; " Tis hostile heaven I dread , and partial Jove . " He said no more , but , with a sigh ENEÏS , XII . 179.
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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
קטעים בולטים
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...