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For my own part, I intend to hunt twice a week during my stay with Sir ROGER; and shall prescribe the moderate use of this exercise to all my country friends, as the best kind of physick for mending a bad constitution, and preserving a good one. I cannot do this better, than in the following lines out of Mr. Dryden.
Stevens recalled them to my thoughts, by remarking, that he seemed to have one favourite catastrophe, as his three plays all concluded with lavish suicide, a method by which, as Dryden remarked, a poet easily rids his scene of persons whom he wants not to keep alive.
"I was born here. I belong here. I lived for years in New York without being able to demonstrate that I could do anything better!" "Dryden has a great idea of what you can do," Silver suggested. "Oh, well, John!" she laughed maternally. "If you've been listening to John " "I've HAD to listen to him," the novelist said mildly.
'Our little fleet was now engaged so far, That, like the swordfish in the whale, they fought. The combat only seemed a civil war, Till through their bowels we our passage wrought. Is this Dryden, or Sternhold, or Shadwell, those Toms who made him say that "dulness was fatal to the name of Tom"? The natural history of Goldsmith in the verse of Pye!
I have said that Dryden was one of the principal supporters of the King's house, and ere long in one of his new plays a principal character was set apart for the popular comedian. which is Florimell, that I never can hope ever to see the like done again, by man or woman. The King and Duke of York were at the play.
The following epigram of Dryden characterizes the three poets with as much truth as it is usual to find in such pointed criticism: "ON MILTON "Three poets in three different ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn The first in loftiness of soul surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of nature could no further go; To make a third she joined the other two."
We have hitherto been credited as the inventors of the "jumping-off place" at the extreme western verge of the world. But Dryden was beforehand with us. In his "Amphitryon," he makes Alcmena say: "No, I would fly thee to the ridge of earth, And leap the precipice to 'scape thy sight."
The romantic movement emphasized these eternal ideals of youth, and appealed to the human heart as the classic elegance of Dryden and Pope could never do. Romanticism was marked by intense human sympathy, and by a consequent understanding of the human heart.
His first attempts in English verse took the form of complimentary addresses, and were so successful as to obtain for him the friendship and interest of Dryden, and of Lord Somers, by whose means he received, in 1699, a pension of £300 to enable him to travel on the continent with a view to diplomatic employment. He visited Italy, whence he addressed his Epistle to his friend Halifax.
"Then let me tell you, Sir," he said, "that you trained with a man who died nearly two hundred years ago." Mr. Delamayn appealed, in genuine bewilderment, to the company generally: "What does this old gentleman mean?" he asked. "I am speaking of Tom Dryden, of Corpus. Every body in the University knows him." "I am speaking," echoed Sir Patrick, "of John Dryden the Poet.
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