Selected Poetry and Prose of John DrydenRandom House, 1969 - 554 pagina's |
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Pagina 47
... things appear flat to us , the wit of which depended on some custom or story which never came to our knowl- edge , or perhaps on some criticism in their language , which being so long dead and only remaining in their books , ' tis not ...
... things appear flat to us , the wit of which depended on some custom or story which never came to our knowl- edge , or perhaps on some criticism in their language , which being so long dead and only remaining in their books , ' tis not ...
Pagina 65
... things which are antecedent to the play and are related to make the conduct of it more clear to us . But ' tis a fault to choose such subjects for the stage as will force us on that rock , because we see they are seldom lis- ten'd to by ...
... things which are antecedent to the play and are related to make the conduct of it more clear to us . But ' tis a fault to choose such subjects for the stage as will force us on that rock , because we see they are seldom lis- ten'd to by ...
Pagina 112
... things which it designs to represent . Wit written is that which is well de- fin'd , the happy result of thought or product of that imagi- nation . But to proceed from wit in the general notion of it to the proper wit of an heroic or ...
... things which it designs to represent . Wit written is that which is well de- fin'd , the happy result of thought or product of that imagi- nation . But to proceed from wit in the general notion of it to the proper wit of an heroic or ...
Inhoudsopgave
HEROIC STANZAS Consecrated to the Glorious | 3 |
ASTRAEA REDUX A Poem on the Happy | 11 |
TO MY HONOURD FRIEND DR CHARLE | 22 |
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