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... Dryden , having perused these ver- ses , said , " Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ; " and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dryden . In 1699 Temple died , and left a legacy with his man ...
... Dryden , having perused these ver- ses , said , " Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ; " and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dryden . In 1699 Temple died , and left a legacy with his man ...
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... Dryden frequented , and pleased himself with having seen him . Dryden died May 1 , 1701 , some days before Pope was twelve ; so early must he therefore have felt the power of harmony and the zeal of genius . Who does not wish that ...
... Dryden frequented , and pleased himself with having seen him . Dryden died May 1 , 1701 , some days before Pope was twelve ; so early must he therefore have felt the power of harmony and the zeal of genius . Who does not wish that ...
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In Twelve Volumes Samuel Johnson. By Dryden's Fables , which had then been not long published , and were much in the hands of poetical read- ers , he was tempted to try his own skill in giving Chau- cer a more fashionable appearance ...
In Twelve Volumes Samuel Johnson. By Dryden's Fables , which had then been not long published , and were much in the hands of poetical read- ers , he was tempted to try his own skill in giving Chau- cer a more fashionable appearance ...
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... Dryden's Virgil ; † and it had been tried again with great success when the " Tatlers " were collected into volumes . . There was reason to believe that Pope's attempt would be successful . He was in the full bloom of re- putation , and ...
... Dryden's Virgil ; † and it had been tried again with great success when the " Tatlers " were collected into volumes . . There was reason to believe that Pope's attempt would be successful . He was in the full bloom of re- putation , and ...
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... the priest , and speak their joint assent ; Not so the tyrant , he , with kingly pride , Atrides Repuls'd the sacred sire , and thus reply'd , [ Not so the tyrant . DRYDEN . ] Of these lines , and of the whole first book D 3 POPE . 81.
... the priest , and speak their joint assent ; Not so the tyrant , he , with kingly pride , Atrides Repuls'd the sacred sire , and thus reply'd , [ Not so the tyrant . DRYDEN . ] Of these lines , and of the whole first book D 3 POPE . 81.
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Seite 155 - Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope. In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Seite 253 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Seite 94 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Seite 190 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust: Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Seite 154 - He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence till he had left nothing to be forgiven.
Seite 188 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Seite 334 - There is no character without some speck, some imperfection; and I think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science.
Seite 336 - As a writer he had this peculiarity, that he did not write his pieces first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not write but at certain times, or at happy moments; a fantastic foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior.
Seite 42 - This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and, in spite of every thing we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money.
Seite 134 - .I never in my " life knew a man that had so tender a heart for " his particular friends, or more general friendship