Template:RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works
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a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works/documentation. [edit]
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox
Usage[edit]
This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden […] in Four Volumes (1760). It may be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books:
- Volume I (contents; archived at the Internet Archive).
- Volume II (contents; archived at the Internet Archive).
- Volume III (contents; archived at the Internet Archive).
- Volume IV (contents; archived at the Internet Archive).
Wherever possible, use a quotation template relating to a specific work (for example, {{RQ:Dryden Virgil}}) instead of this template. Use this template only for works of Dryden which are otherwise difficult to find.
Parameters[edit]
The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|volume=– mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either|volume=I,|volume=II,|volume=III, or|volume=IV.|stanza=– if a poem is quoted, this parameter may be used to specify the stanza number quoted from in Arabic numerals.|2=,|chapter=, or|poem=– mandatory: the name of the chapter or poem quoted from. Providing the parameter with a value indicated in the first column of the following table will produce the result indicated in the second column:
| Parameter | Result | First page number |
|---|---|---|
| Volume I | ||
| Volume II | ||
| Amyntas | On the Death of Amyntas. A Pastoral Elegy. | page 247 |
| Charleton | Epistle the Second. To My Honored Friend Dr. [Walter] Charleton, on His Learned and Useful Works; but More Particularly His Treatise of Stone-henge, by Him Restor’d to the True Founder. | page 154 |
| Daphnis | Daphnis. From the Twenty-seventh Idyllium of Theocritus. | page 419 |
| Dryden | Epistle the Thirteenth. To My Honoured Kinsman, John Dryden, of Chesterton, in the County of Huntingdon, Esq | page 185 |
| Eleonora | Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem, Dedicated to the Memory of the Late Countess of Abingdon (c. 1691) | page 221 |
| Helen and Menelaus | The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus. From the 18th Idyllium of Theocritus. | page 409 |
| Kneller | Epistle the Fourteenth. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to His Majesty. | page 194 |
| Lucretius 1 | The Beginning of the First Book of Lucretius | page 431 |
| Lucretius 4 | The Latter Part of the Fourth Book of Lucretius; Concerning the Nature of Love | page 451 |
| Mac Flecknoe | Mac Flecknoe (written c. 1678; published 1682)
|
page 137 |
| Prologue to Disappointment | Prologue to the Dissappointment: Or, The Mother in Fashion. [By Mr. [Thomas] Southerne, 1684.] Spoken by Mr. [Thomas] Betterton. | page 347 |
| Prologue to Circe | Prologue to Circe (from Charles Davenant's Circe, a Tragedy (1675)) | page 309 |
| The Second Epode of Horace | The Second Epode of Horace | page 477 |
| St. Cecilia's Day | A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687 | page 268 |
| Volume III | ||
| Iphis and Ianthe | The Fable of Iphis and Ianthe. From the Ninth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. | page 400 |
| Volume IV | ||
| Hector and Andromache | The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache. From the Sixth Book of the Iliad. | page 449 |
| Ilias 1 | The First Book of Homer’s Ilias | page 411 |
Translations of Persius
| ||
| Persius 1 | The First Satire of Persius (1693) | page 339 |
| Persius 2 | The Second Satire of Persius (1693) | page 355 |
| Persius 3 | The Third Satire of Persius (1693) | page 363 |
| Persius 4 | The Fourth Satire of Persius (1693) | page 375 |
| Persius 5 | The Fifth Satire of Persius (1693) | page 383 |
| Persius 6 | The Sixth Satire of Persius (1693) | page 398 |
- For help adding other poems to the template, leave a message on the talk page or at "Wiktionary:Grease pit".
|section=– the name of a section of a poem quoted from.|3=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory in some cases: the page or range of pages quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=10–11. - You must also use
|pageref=to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template link to an online version of the work.
|url=– if quoting a page with a number which is a Roman numeral, use this parameter to manually specify the URL to link to, like this:|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BPhdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3|4=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|footer=– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.
Examples[edit]
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works|volume=I|chapter=The Life of John Dryden, Esq.|page=xiii|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BPhdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR13|passage=[[w:John Dryden|[John] Dryden]]'s '''univerſal''' genius, his firmly eſtablished reputation, and the glory his memory muſt always reflect upon the nation that gave him birth, make us ardently wiſh for a more accurate life of him than any which has hitherto appeared: {{...}}}}; or{{RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works|I|The Life of John Dryden, Esq.|xiii|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BPhdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR13|[[w:John Dryden|[John] Dryden]]'s '''univerſal''' genius, his firmly eſtablished reputation, and the glory his memory muſt always reflect upon the nation that gave him birth, make us ardently wiſh for a more accurate life of him than any which has hitherto appeared: {{...}}}}
- Result:
- a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Life of John Dryden, Esq.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page xiii:
- [John] Dryden's univerſal genius, his firmly eſtablished reputation, and the glory his memory muſt always reflect upon the nation that gave him birth, make us ardently wiſh for a more accurate life of him than any which has hitherto appeared: […]
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works|volume=IV|poem=Hector and Andromache|pages=451–452|pageref=451|passage=I have no parents, friends, nor brothers left; / By ſtern {{w|Achilles}} all of life bereft. / Then when the walls of Thebes he '''overthrew''', / His fatal hand my royal father ſlew; / He ſlew Aetion, but deſpoil'd him not; / Nor in his hate the funeral rites forgot; {{...}}}} - Result:
- a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache. From the Sixth Book of the Iliad.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, pages 451–452:
- I have no parents, friends, nor brothers left; / By ſtern Achilles all of life bereft. / Then when the walls of Thebes he overthrew, / His fatal hand my royal father ſlew; / He ſlew Aetion, but deſpoil'd him not; / Nor in his hate the funeral rites forgot; […]
See also[edit]
{{RQ:Dryden Iliad}}– to quote Dryden's translations from the Iliad in this work