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... Charles's reign : * Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . His great work is his essay on translated verse ; of They were published , together with those of Duke , in an octavo volume , in 1717 ...
... Charles's reign : * Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . His great work is his essay on translated verse ; of They were published , together with those of Duke , in an octavo volume , in 1717 ...
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... Dryden . In return , succeeding poets have borrowed from Ros- common . In the verses on the lap - dog , the pronouns ... Charles Cotterel , has given the history . " Lord Roscommon , " says she , " is certainly one of the most promising ...
... Dryden . In return , succeeding poets have borrowed from Ros- common . In the verses on the lap - dog , the pronouns ... Charles Cotterel , has given the history . " Lord Roscommon , " says she , " is certainly one of the most promising ...
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... Dryden and Sprat wrote on the same occasion ; but they were young men , struggling into notice , and hoping for some ... Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , with- out some contempt and indignation , poems of the same 228 ...
... Dryden and Sprat wrote on the same occasion ; but they were young men , struggling into notice , and hoping for some ... Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , with- out some contempt and indignation , poems of the same 228 ...
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... Dryden , like the other panegyrists of usurpation , changed his opinion , or his profession , and published ASTREA REdux , a poem on the happy restoration and return of his most sacred majesty king Charles the Second . The reproach of ...
... Dryden , like the other panegyrists of usurpation , changed his opinion , or his profession , and published ASTREA REdux , a poem on the happy restoration and return of his most sacred majesty king Charles the Second . The reproach of ...
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... Charles the Second , who had formed his taste by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of versification he was more ...
... Charles the Second , who had formed his taste by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of versification he was more ...
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Page 371 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 74 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 92 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 61 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 140 - Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and /Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy;...
Page 86 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 38 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Page 141 - ... combinations. The shepherd likewise is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards an ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not...
Page 26 - Yet great labour directed by great abilities is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
Page 93 - ... but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation...