 | David Harrison Stevens - 1923 - 938 pages
...Fletcher, and wherein and how far they are both to be imitated. But, since I must not be over-confident is moon which rose last night, round as my shield,...not yet filled her horns, when, by her light, 5o A Vcntidius in the first act to anything which I have written in this kind. What flocks of critics hover... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 pages
...rhyme. . . . Since I must not be over-confident of my own performance after him, it will be prudent in me to be silent. Yet, I hope, I may affirm, and...scene betwixt Antony and Ventidius in the first act to anything which I have written in this kind ' (Preface to All for Love). As this passage shows, Dryden... | |
 | University of Texas - 1928 - 138 pages
...Shakespeare. ... I hope I need not to explain myself that I have not copied my author servilely. . . . Yet I hope I may affirm, and without vanity, that...scene betwixt Antony and Ventidius in the first act to anything which I have written in this kind." The implication of this admission, in its context, is... | |
 | John Dryden - 1972 - 188 pages
...Shakespeare and Fletcher in his "Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy" prefixed to Troihis and Cressida, 1679. of my own performance after him, it will be prudence...scene betwixt Antony and Ventidius in the first act to 350 anything which I have written in this kind. PROLOGUE TO ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA What flocks of critics... | |
 | John Dryden - 1985 - 672 pages
...Fletcher, and wherein, and how far they so are both to be imitated. But since I must not be over-confident of my own performance after him, it will be prudence...Yet I hope I may affirm, and without vanity, that by 2 French] Di-z; French Qi-g, F. 9 Art of Poetry] Di-a; Art of Poetry Qi-j, F. 13 English] Di-z; English... | |
 | John Dryden - 1956 - 682 pages
...Fletcher, and wherein, and how far they so are both to be imitated. But since I must not be over-confident of my own performance after him, it will be prudence...Yet I hope I may affirm, and without vanity, that by 2 French] D1-2; French Q1-3, F. 9 Art of Poetry] D1-2; Art of Poetry Q1-3, F. imitating him, I have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 636 pages
...Fletcher, and wherein, and how far they are both to be imitated. But since I must not be over-confident of my own performance after him, it will be prudence...and without vanity, that by imitating him, I have excell'd my self throughout the Play ; and particularly, that I prefer the Scene betwixt Anthony and... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - 194 pages
...The preface ends: But since I may not be over-confident of my performance after him [Shakespeare], it will be prudence in me to be silent. Yet I hope I may all inn, and without vanity, that by imitating him I have excell'd myself throughout the Play and particularly,... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - 194 pages
...The preface ends: But since I may not be over-confident of my performance after him [Shakespeare], it will be prudence in me to be silent. Yet I hope I may all inn, and without vanity, that by imitating him I have excell'd myself throughout the Play and particularly,... | |
 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Staff, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies Staff - 2004 - 370 pages
...years earlier, in 1677, Dryden had ended his Preface to All for Love on a comparatively confident note: 'Yet I hope I may affirm, and without vanity, that by imitating him [Shakespeare], I have excell'd my self throughout the Play.26 Now, reconsidering his relation to Shakespeare,... | |
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I hope, I may affirm, and without vanity, that, by imitating him, I have excelled myself throughout the play ; and particularly, that I prefer the scene betwixt Antony and Ventidius in the first act, to anything which I have written in this kind. 
