Dryden's SatireMacmillan, 1966 - 182 pages |
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Page xxxiv
... express an attitude to contempo- rary affairs that really has little to do with the validity of the parallel itself . Indeed , it is the actual incongruity which supplies the tone of complimentary raillery that must have delighted ...
... express an attitude to contempo- rary affairs that really has little to do with the validity of the parallel itself . Indeed , it is the actual incongruity which supplies the tone of complimentary raillery that must have delighted ...
Page 55
... express'd , Thy praises had been Satire at the best ; But thou in Clumsy verse , unlick'd , unpointed , Hast Shamefully defy'd the Lord's Anointed . I will not rake the Dunghill of thy Crimes , For who would read thy Life that reads thy ...
... express'd , Thy praises had been Satire at the best ; But thou in Clumsy verse , unlick'd , unpointed , Hast Shamefully defy'd the Lord's Anointed . I will not rake the Dunghill of thy Crimes , For who would read thy Life that reads thy ...
Page 176
... express forcibly . Though Davies has reasoned in rhyme before him , it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry . He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty . What was said of Rome ...
... express forcibly . Though Davies has reasoned in rhyme before him , it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry . He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty . What was said of Rome ...
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