The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when the labourers have Such rest in bed , that their last ...
... Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when the labourers have Such rest in bed , that their last ...
Page 46
... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being ...
... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being ...
Page 95
... Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been first Cal- vinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the presbyterians , to have ...
... Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been first Cal- vinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the presbyterians , to have ...
Page 126
... Dryden imputes to Spenser ; the action could not have been one ; there could only have been a succession of incidents , each of which might have happened without the rest , and which could not all co - operate to any single conclusion ...
... Dryden imputes to Spenser ; the action could not have been one ; there could only have been a succession of incidents , each of which might have happened without the rest , and which could not all co - operate to any single conclusion ...
Page 129
... Dryden among them , continued to believe that conjunctions and oppositions had a great part in the distribution of good or evil , and in the government of sublunary things . Poetical action ought to be probable upon certain suppo ...
... Dryden among them , continued to believe that conjunctions and oppositions had a great part in the distribution of good or evil , and in the government of sublunary things . Poetical action ought to be probable upon certain suppo ...
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