 | 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1972 - 188 pages
...divine Shakespeare; which that I might perform more 330 freely, I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Not that I condemn my former way, but that this is more proper to my present purpose. I hope I need not to explain myself, that I have not copied my author servilely: words and phrases... | |
 | John Dryden - 1985 - 672 pages
...Divine Shakespeare; which that I might perform more freely, I have dis-incumber'd my self from Rhyme. Not that I condemn my former way, but that this is more proper to my 20 present purpose. I hope I need not to explain my self, that I have not Copy'd my Author servilely:... | |
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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. 
