 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...divine Shakespear ; which, that I might perform more freely, I have disincumber'd myself from rhyme. des 37. Thomas Rymer, here quoted with respect, was, in 1678 about forty years old, a Yorkshireman, educated... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1903 - 488 pages
...1678, he returned to blank verse in All for Love, saying: '"I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Not that I condemn my former way, but that this is more proper to my present purpose." In all about five plays of Dryden's are in couplets; after 1678 he rarely returned to rime for the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 412 pages
...Divine Shakefpear; which that I might perform more freely, I have difincumber'd my felf from Rhyme. Not that I condemn my former way, but that this is more proper to my prefent purpofe. I hope I need not to explain my felf, that I have not Copy'd my Author fervilely :... | |
 | 1909 - 900 pages
...the divine Shakespeare, which that I might perform freely, I have disencumbered myself from rhyme, not that I condemn my former way, but that this is more proper to my present purpose." Even Byron, who said : " Prose poets like blank verse, I'm fond of rhyme," used blank verse in his... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 636 pages
...masters.' In order, however, to imitate Shakespeare in his style, he disencumbered himself of rime : ' Not that I condemn my former way, but that this is more proper to my present purpose.' In 1692, Rymer published (with the date 1693 on the title-page), A short View of Tragedy: Its original... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - 1914 - 392 pages
...divine Shakespeare ; which that I might perform more freely, I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Not that I condemn my former way, but that this is more proper to my present purpose.' He admits, with Rymer, that the ancients 'are and ought to be our masters. . . . Yet, though their... | |
 | John Percival Postgate - 1922 - 232 pages
...Poesy' pp. 90 sq. (ed. Ker). His last one ' All for Love ' is in blank verse, 'not,' its author says, 'that I condemn my former way but that this is more proper for my present purpose.' Professor Gilbert Murray's choice of rhyme for his translation of Euripides... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - 402 pages
...its Prologue the author's farewell to that kind of drama. PREFACE TO ALL FOR LOVE (1678) Aureng-zeb, the last of the rhyming heroic plays, was published...his First Book). THE GROUNDS OF CRITICISM IN TRAGEDY (Preface to Troilus and Cressida, 1679) Dryden was still interested by the problems of regularity which... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - 402 pages
...its Prologue the author's farewell to that kind of drama. PREFACE TO ALL FOR LOVE (1678) Aureng-zeb, the last of the rhyming heroic plays, was published...his First Book). THE GROUNDS OF CRITICISM IN TRAGEDY (Preface to Troilus and Cressida, 1679) Dryden was still interested by the problems of regularity which... | |
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In my style, I have professed to imitate the divine Shakespeare; which that I might perform more freely, I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Not that I condemn my former way, but that this is more proper to my present purpose. 
