In the same prolusion, Strada quotes the "blustering" line, afterwards censured by Dryden; but erroneously reads. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference
The "State of Innocence," as it could not be designed for the stage, seems to have been originally intended as a mere poetical prolusion; for. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author] Reference
It was, after all, only the easiest part of the task that he had set before him, only a prolusion to the tragedy that he would have to play to a finish. From Wordnik.com. [The Nebuly Coat] Reference
This was a possibility which had never entered the lawyer's long list of calamities, and he was at some loss to conceive what the old lady could possibly mean by so sentimental a prolusion. From Wordnik.com. [St. Ronan's Well] Reference
Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine, whose prolusion lasted the longer, and was the more intricate and embarrassed, that he felt himself debarred from rounding it off by his usual alliterative petition for deliverance from Popery, Prelacy, and. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
Milton could write poeti - cally in the Arcades (lines 72-73) of this music “which none can hear/Of human mould with grosse unpurged ear,” but in his prolusion “On the Music of the. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
This was a possibility which had never entered the lawyer’s long list of calamities, and he was at some loss to conceive what the old lady could possibly mean by so sentimental a prolusion. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
But why such long prolusion and display. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine, whose prolusion lasted the longer, and was the more intricate and embarrassed, that he felt himself debarred from rounding it off by his usual alliterative petition for deliverance from Popery, Prelacy, and Peveril of the Peak, which had become so habitual to him, that, after various attempts to conclude with some other form of words, he found himself at last obliged to pronounce the first words of his usual formula aloud, and mutter the rest in such a manner as not to be intelligible even by those who stood nearest to him. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
As to this little poem being a youthful prolusion of Homer, it seems sufficient to say that from the beginning to the end, it is a plain and palpable parody, not only of the general spirit, but of numerous passages of the Iliad itself; and, even if no such intention to parody were discernible in it, the objection would still remain, that to suppose a work of mere burlesque to be the primary effort of poetry in a simple age, seems to reverse that order in the development of national taste, which the history of every other people in Europe, and of many in Asia, has almost ascertained to be a law of the human mind; it is in a state of society much more refined and permanent than that described in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
As to this little poem being a youthful prolusion of Homer, it seems sufficient to say that from the beginning to the end it is a plain and palpable parody, not only of the general spirit, but of the numerous passages of the Iliad itself; and even, if no such intention to parody were discernible in it, the objection would still remain, that to suppose a work of mere burlesque to be the primary effort of poetry in a simple age, seems to reverse that order in the development of national taste, which the history of every other people in Europe, and of many in Asia, has almost ascertained to be a law of the human mind; it is in a state of society much more refined and permanent than that described in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
As to this little poem being a youthful prolusion of Homer, it seems sufficient to say that from the beginning to the end, it is a plain and palpable parody, not only of the general spirit, but of numerous passages of the Iliad itself; and, even if no such intention to parody were discernible in it, the objection would still remain, that to suppose a work of mere burlesque to be the primary effort of poetry in a simple age, seems to reverse that order in the development of national taste, which the history of every other people in Europe, and of many in Asia, has almost ascertained to be a law of the human mind; it is in a state of society much more refined and permanent than that described in the Iliad, that any popularity would attend such a ridicule of war and the gods as is contained in this poem; and the fact of there having existed three other poems of the same kind attributed, for aught we can see, with as much reason to Homer, is a strong inducement to believe that none of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
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