FHS Paper 4 Quotes

Dryden ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ - Shakespeare as the father comparison

‘Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets’

Dryden ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ - Milton’s father

‘Milton was the poetical son of Shakespeare’

Dryden ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ - envy - comparison with the dead

‘to raise envy to the living to compare them with the dead’

Dryden ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ - patrineal inheritance metaphor

‘We acknowledge them our fathers in wit; but they have ruined their estates themselves before they came to their children’s hands.’

Marvell ‘On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost’ - space taken up

‘no room is here for writers left, / But to detect their ignorance and theft

Marvell ‘On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost’ - references Dryden

‘Town-Bayes’

Marvell ‘On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost’ - rhyming couplet ironic about Dryden’s play

‘now convinced that none will dare / Within thy labours to pretend a share’

Marvell, ‘On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost’ - line echoed by Lee

‘Pardon me, Mighty Poet’

Lee ‘To Mr. Dryden, on his Poem of Paradice’ - echoing Marvell

‘Forgive me, awful poet’

Lee ‘To Mr. Dryden, on his Poem of Paradice’ - the virginal unspoiled text

‘beauteous rustic Maid’

Lee ‘To Mr. Dryden, on his Poem of Paradice’ - virginal text put on the stage

‘Drest her with gems, new weav’d her hard spun thought / And softest language, sweetest manners taught’

Lee ‘To Mr. Dryden, on his Poem of Paradice’ - virginal text pleasing the king

‘to Court this Virgin brought’

Lee ‘To Mr. Dryden, on his Poem of Paradice’ - two criticisms of rustic original

‘rudely cast’, ‘old fashion’d’

Swift Gulliver’s Travels - Brobdingnagian women up close

‘a mole here and there as broad as a trencher, and hairs hanging from it thicker than pack-threads’

Swift Gulliver’s Travels - Gulliver reflects on English ladies’ skin

‘their defects not to be seen but through a magnifying glass, where we find by experiment that the smoothest and whitest skins look rough and coarse’

Swift Gulliver’s Travels - remembered Lilliputian view of Gulliver’s skin

‘the stumps of my beard were ten times stronger than the bristles of a boar’

Swift Gulliver’s Travels - Gulliver on his own reflection in Brobdingnag

‘nothing more ridiculous than the comparison; so that I really began to imagine myself dwindled many degrees below my usual size’

Swift Gulliver’s Travels - hatred for humans (sailors) on return from Brobdingnag

‘the most little contemptible creatures’

Swift Gulliver’s Travels - object comparisons as he returns to human society

‘dishes of the size of a silver three-pence, a leg of pork hardly a mouthful, a cup not so big as a nut-shell’

Swift Gulliver’s Travels - Laputians’ eyes

‘one of their eyes turned inward, and the other directly up to the zenith’

Swift Gulliver’s Travels - self-hating misanthropy at the end when seeing reflection

‘I turned away my face in horror and detestation of myself’

Behn Oroonoko - Oroonoko’s noblility as he is dismembered

‘they cut his ears, and his nose, and burned them; he still smoked on, as if nothing had touched him’

Behn Oroonoko - Imoinda’s conquest of Oroonoko

‘she gained perfect conquest over his fierce heart, and made him feel the victor could be subdued’

Behn Oroonoko - subtitle

‘The Royal Slave’

Behn Oroonoko - naturalising Oroonoko through European education reference

‘He had nothing of barbarity in his nature, but in all points addressed himself as if his education had been in some European court’

Behn Oroonoko - naturalising Oroonoko through Roman reference

‘His nose was rising and Roman, instead of African and flat’

Behn Oroonoko - violence underlining the material finality of chattel status

‘like rending the very flesh from their bones’

Rochester ‘Give me leave to rail at you’ - love as captivity

‘(alas) against my will, / I must be your captive still’

Rochester ‘Satyr on Charles II’ - praise of king?

‘The easiest king and the best bred man alive’

Rochester ‘Satyr on Charles II’ - prick as the real ruler

‘The pricks of kings are like buffoons at Court: / We let them rule because they make us sport’

Rochester ‘Satyr on Charles II’ - lawless and unruly libido

‘Whate’er religion or his laws say on’t, / He’d break through all to come at any cunt’

Rochester ‘On the King’ - full poem ‘God bless…’,

‘God bless our good and gracious King / Whose promise none relies on. Who never said a foolish thing, / Nor ever did a wise one.’