The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations, Volume 4Rivington, 1811 |
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Æneid againſt almoſt alſo anſwer Auguſtus becauſe beſides beſt betwixt buſineſs Cæfar Cafaubon cauſe cloſe counſel crime defire deſign eaſe eaſy Engliſh Ennius Ev'n ev'ry eyes faid falſe fame fatire fear fight fince fire firſt flain flave fome foul fuch give gods Grecian haſte Horace houſe inſtructed Jove juſt juſtly Juvenal king laſt leaſt leſs Livius Andronicus loft lord lordſhip loſe Lucilius maſter moſt muſe muſt numbers o'er obſerve Ovid paſs paſſage paſſions Perfius perſons pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetry praiſe preſent raiſe reaſon reſt riſe Roman Rome ſame Satire SATIRE OF JUVENAL ſay ſcarce ſecond ſeen Sejanus ſenſe ſeveral ſhall ſhame ſhare ſhe ſhips ſhore ſhould ſhow ſhun ſmall ſome ſometimes ſpeak ſpirits ſtage ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtore ſtreams ſtrength ſtyle ſubject ſuch thee theſe thoſe thou thought tranflation uſe verſe vices Virgil WARTON whoſe wife words write
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Page 367 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Page 84 - ... poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate ; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum...
Page 84 - No man is capable of translating poetry, who besides a genius to that art, is not a master both of his author's language, and of his own. Nor must we understand the language only of the poet, but his particular turn of thoughts and expression, which are the characters that distinguish, and as it were individuate, him from all other writers.
Page 323 - Scarce can our Fields, such Crowds at Tyburn die, With Hemp the Gallows and the Fleet supply. Propose your Schemes, ye Senatorian Band, Whose Ways and Means support the sinking Land; Lest Ropes be wanting in the tempting Spring, To rig another Convoy for the K[in]g.
Page 256 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Page 275 - Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts, which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words, which he had been digging from the mines of Chaucer and Spenser, and which, with all their rusticity, had somewhat of venerable in them. But I found not there neither that for which I looked.
Page 380 - Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain, " Think nothing gain'd," he cries, " till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.
Page 51 - On four feet imitates his brother beast: By slow degrees he gathers from the ground His legs, and to the rolling chair is bound; Then walks alone; a horseman now become, He rides a stick, and travels round the room.
Page 181 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Page 96 - Nor has my love made any coxcomb vain. Your boldnefs I with admiration fee ; What hope had you to gain a queen like me...