 This worthless present was designed you long before it was a play; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the dark; when the fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there...  The Harvard Magazine - 第 129 頁1856完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Carl Henrik Andreas Bjerregaard - 1912 - 248 頁
...more, we should derive no mental, moral, or spiritual benefit from them. Dryden speaks of his work when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the dark, when the fancy (he meant image-making power) was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things towards... | |
 | Irving Babbitt - 1919 - 476 頁
...Diyden betrays the influence of Hobbes when he says of the period of incubation of his "Rival Ladies": "Fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping...things towards the light, there to be distinguished and either chosen or rejected by judgment." Fancy or imagination (the words were still synonymous), as... | |
 | Irving Babbitt - 1919 - 462 頁
...betrays the influence of Hobbes when he says of the period of incubation of his "Rival Ladies": ^ 7< Fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there to be distinjjuished and either chosen or rejected by judgment." Fancy or imagination (the words were still... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 380 頁
...Earl of Orrery in words which later haunted the imagination of Lord Byron that his play had once been "only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one...the sleeping images of things towards the light." As many as a dozen times throughout his works he played with the notion of a world of scattered atoms,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1921 - 332 頁
...TragiComedy (1694) MY LORD, — This worthless present was designed you long before it was a play; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...sleeping images of things towards the light, there to be distinguished,and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment; it was yours, my Lord, before I could... | |
 | John Livingston Lowes - 1927 - 694 頁
...Ladies to the Earl of Orrery, 'was design'd you, long before it was a Play; when it only was a confus'd Mass of Thoughts, tumbling over one another in the...and then either chosen or rejected by the Judgment.' *J That is an incomparable picture in little of the creative process, and John Dryden was no sentimentalist.... | |
 | John Livingston Lowes - 1927 - 698 頁
...Ladies to the Earl of Orrery, 'was design'd you, long before it was a Play; when it only was a confus'd Mass of Thoughts, tumbling over one another in the...distinguished, and then either chosen or rejected by the Judgment.'63 That is an incomparable picture in little of the creative process, and John Dryden was... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 686 頁
...In his dedication to the ' Rival Ladies ' Dryden, speaking of the progress of the work, says : — 'When it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment." This reappears in ' Marino Faliero,' i, ii, as — ' As yet 'tis but a chaos Of darkly brooding thoughts... | |
 | H. James Jensen - 1969 - 141 頁
...and fancy. Some critics are more extreme. See Judgment, Reason, Imagination, Wit, Invention. I.PRL 2 ("When the 'fancy' was yet in its first work, moving...then either chosen or rejected by the judgment"), 3, 8 ("fancy" and "imagination" are used interchangeably on this page), 8, 9, EDP 22 (and "antithesis"... | |
 | Dean Keith Simonton - 1988 - 242 頁
...playwright and poet John Dryden, in his "Dedication of the Rival-Ladies," spoke of his play beginning "when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment" (quoted in Ghiselin 1952, p. 80). The French poet and essayist Paul Valery provided a fine paraphrase:... | |
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