Download or read book The Spanish Frayar Vol 5 written by Mr. Dryden and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Spanish Frayar, Vol. 5: Or, the Double Discovery Few good pictures have been finished at one sitting; neither can a true just play, which is to bear the test of ages, be produced at a heat, or by the force of fancy, without the maturity of judgment. For my own part, 1 have both so just a dissidence of myself and so great a reverence for my audience, that I dare venture nothing without a strict examination; and am as much ashamed to put a loose indigested play upon the public, as I should be to offer brass money in a payment: for though it should be taken, (as it is too often on the stage, ) yet it will be found in the second telling: and a judicious reader will discover in his closet that trashy stuff, whose glittering deceived him in the action. I have often heard the stationer sighing in his shop, and wishing for those hands to take off his melancholy bargain which clapped its performance on the stage. In a play-house eery thing contributes to impose upon the judgment; the lights, the scenes, the habits, and, above all, the grace of action, which is commonly the best where there is the most need of it, surprize the audience, and cast a mist upon their understandings; not unlike the cunning of a juggler, who is always staring us in the face, and overwhelming us with gibberish, only that he may gain the opportunity of making the cleaner conveyance of his trick. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Dramatick Works of John Dryden Esq Vol 5 written by John Dryden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq., Vol. 5: Containing, Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Too Late; The Spanish Fryar, or the Double Discovery; The Duke of Guise; Vindication of the Duke of Guise; Albion and Albianus Unlel's he help himfelf by an acquir'd Knowledge of the Paffions, what they are in their own Nature, and bey what Sprin 5 they are to be mov'd. He will be fubje either to rage them where they ought not to be rais'd', or not to raife them by the juil Degrees of Nature, or to amplify them beyond the Natural Bounds, or not to obferve the Crifis and turns of them, in their cooling and Decay all which Errors proceed from want of judg ment in the Poet, and from being unskill'd in the Prin c ples of Moral Philofo hy. Nothing is more frequent in a Fanciful Writer, than to foil himfelf by not mama; Eng his Stren h: therefore, as in a Wreliler, there is g It requir'd ome meafure of Force, a well-knit Body, anl Ae'tive Limbs, without which all Iniiruetion would be vain; yet, thefe being granted, ifihe want the Skill which is neccffary to a Wrefiler, he {hall make but {mall Advantage of his natural Robuftuoufnefi: So in a Poet, h's inborn Vehemence and force of Spirit, will only run h'm out of Breath the fooner, if it be not fupported by the help of Art. The roar of Pa ion indeed may plea e an Audience, three parts of which are ignorant enough to think all is movin which is Noihe, and it may firetch the Lungs of an ameitious Aetor, who will dye upon the Spot for a thundring Clap, but it will move no 0 ther Pafiion than Indignation and Contempt from judi cious Men. Longinur, whom I have hitherto follow'd. Continues thus: If the Paffions be Artfully employ'd, tho Dii'courfe becomes vehement and lofty; if otherwife, there is nothin more ridiculous than a great Padiou out of Seafon: An to this purpofe he animadverts feverel'y upon Affcbylm, who writ nothing in cold Blood, but was always in a Rapture, and in Fury with his Audience: the lnfpiration was {till upon him, he was ever tearing it upon the Tripos, or (to run ofi as madly as he does, from one Similitude to another) he was always at High ood of Paiiion, even in the dead Ebb, and loweft Wa ter-mark of the Scene. He who would taife the Pa ion of a judicious Audience, fays a learned Critick, mupt be fure to take his Heaters alon with him; if they be in a Calm, 'tis invain for him to in a Hu ' he mutt move them, fbe preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
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Download or read book The Works of John Dryden Volume XII written by John Dryden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three plays in this volume, composed between 1672 or 1673 and 1675, demonstrate Dryden's versatility and inventiveness as a dramatist. Amboyna, a tragedy written to stir the English to prosecute the Third Dutch War, describes the destruction by the Dutch of English trading posts on two Indonesian islands. Regarded in its time as sensationalist, it is really a dignified drama that decries violence. The State of Innocence, termed an opera, is a rhymed version of Milton's Paradise Lost. Though never performed or set to music, it became one of Dryden's most widely read dramas. Aureng-Zebe, the last and generally considered the best of Dryden's rhymed heroic plays, portrays the rise to power of Mogul emperor Aureng-Zebe (1618-1707).
Download or read book The Dramatick Works of John Dryden Esq in Six Volumes written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1763 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
