Dryden's SatireMacmillan, 1966 - 182 pages |
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Page xxxiii
... David with the same bland effrontery with which he had elevated the character of Shadwell , but now there is a sound basis of truth : David certainly rivalled Charles in ' vigorous warmth ' and sinned more grievously in acquiring ...
... David with the same bland effrontery with which he had elevated the character of Shadwell , but now there is a sound basis of truth : David certainly rivalled Charles in ' vigorous warmth ' and sinned more grievously in acquiring ...
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... David weak . All sorts of men by my successful Arts , Abhorring Kings , estrange their alter'd Hearts From David's Rule : and ' tis the general Cry , ' Religion , Commonwealth , and Liberty . ' If you , as Champion of the public Good ...
... David weak . All sorts of men by my successful Arts , Abhorring Kings , estrange their alter'd Hearts From David's Rule : and ' tis the general Cry , ' Religion , Commonwealth , and Liberty . ' If you , as Champion of the public Good ...
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... David ( 2 Sam . xx . 1 ) . David says of them ( xxiii . 6 ) that they ' shall be all ... as thorns thrust away , because they cannot be taken with hands ' like the Whigs while Bethel was sheriff . Belial was the devil especially ...
... David ( 2 Sam . xx . 1 ) . David says of them ( xxiii . 6 ) that they ' shall be all ... as thorns thrust away , because they cannot be taken with hands ' like the Whigs while Bethel was sheriff . Belial was the devil especially ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO Absalom | xlvii |
TIME CHART | lv |
Copyright | |
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Absalom and Achitophel Aeneid allusion Anglican Arts bless'd blood Catholic character Charles Church common couplet Court Crimes Crowd David design'd Dissenters divine Doctrine DRYDEN'S SATIRE dullness epic Essay ev'n ev'ry Exclusion Bill faith Fame Fate Father fear Foes Fool Friends Grace hast Heav'n heroic Hind Hist Hobbes Honour Horace Hudibras human humour James Jebusites John Dryden Juvenal King king's lines literary Lord Love Mac Flecknoe Medal mind mock-heroic Monarch Monmouth Native Nature ne'er never Noble o'er Panther Parliament parody Persius plain plays poem Poet poetry political Pope Popish Plot praise Priests Prince prose Protestant Puritans rais'd reason Rebel Reign Religio Laici Religion Rhyme Roman Sanhedrin Satire X Satires of Juvenal Scripture Sects Sejanus sense Shadwell Shadwell's Shaftesbury Soul spirit T. S. ELIOT thee thou thought Throne true truth try'd verse Virtue Whigs words write Youth