The Poets Laureate of England Being a History of the Office of Poet Laureate B
The Poets Laureate of England Being a History of the Office of Poet Laureate B
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He was extremely diffident and retiring with strangers ; but his learning and advice were always at the disposal of his friends, and numerous anecdotes are related of his kindness to rising men of letters. Among the most noteworthy of his 'pvottyfe were Congreve, Southern, and Walsh. '-He says of himself: "My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and reserved. In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company or make repartees. " In reading, his delivery was rema...rkably devoid of expression, insomuch that he frequently marred the effect of his best lines by his tedious recital of them.
Colley Cibber particularly mentions this peculiarity : — "As we have sometimes great composers of musick who cannot sing, we have as frequently great writers that cannot read. Of this, Dryden our first great master of verse and harmony, was a strong instance. When he brought his play of Amphytrion to JOHN DRYDEN. 105 the stage, I heard him give it his first reading to the actors, in which, though it is true, he delivered the plain sense of every period, yet the whole was in so cold, so flat and unaft'ecting a manner, that I am afraid of not being believed, when I affirm it.
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He was extremely diffident and retiring with strangers ; but his learning and advice were always at the disposal of his friends, and numerous anecdotes are related of his kindness to rising men of letters. Among the most noteworthy of his 'pvottyfe were Congreve, Southern, and Walsh. '-He says of himself: "My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and reserved. In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company or make repartees. " In reading, his delivery was rema...rkably devoid of expression, insomuch that he frequently marred the effect of his best lines by his tedious recital of them.
Colley Cibber particularly mentions this peculiarity : — "As we have sometimes great composers of musick who cannot sing, we have as frequently great writers that cannot read. Of this, Dryden our first great master of verse and harmony, was a strong instance. When he brought his play of Amphytrion to JOHN DRYDEN. 105 the stage, I heard him give it his first reading to the actors, in which, though it is true, he delivered the plain sense of every period, yet the whole was in so cold, so flat and unaft'ecting a manner, that I am afraid of not being believed, when I affirm it.
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