The Poetical Works of John Dryden, 3. köideW. Pickering, 1832 |
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... Songs in the Conquest of Granada Song of the Sea - Fight , in Amboyna Incantation in Edipus Songs in Albion and Albanius Songs in King Arthur Song of Jealousy , in Love Triumphant Page PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . Prologue to the Rival Ladies.
... Songs in the Conquest of Granada Song of the Sea - Fight , in Amboyna Incantation in Edipus Songs in Albion and Albanius Songs in King Arthur Song of Jealousy , in Love Triumphant Page PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . Prologue to the Rival Ladies.
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John Dryden. Page PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . Prologue to the Rival Ladies Prologue to the Indian Queen Epilogue to the Indian Queen Epilogue to the Indian Emperor 41 42 43 44 Prologue to Sir Martin Marr - All 45 Prologue to The Tempest ...
John Dryden. Page PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . Prologue to the Rival Ladies Prologue to the Indian Queen Epilogue to the Indian Queen Epilogue to the Indian Emperor 41 42 43 44 Prologue to Sir Martin Marr - All 45 Prologue to The Tempest ...
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... Prologue to the University of Oxford Prologue to the University of Oxford Prologue to Albion and Albanius ........ Epilogue to Albion and Albanius Prologue to Arviragus and Philicia Page 88 90 91 92 94 95 97 98 Prologue to Don Sebastian ...
... Prologue to the University of Oxford Prologue to the University of Oxford Prologue to Albion and Albanius ........ Epilogue to Albion and Albanius Prologue to Arviragus and Philicia Page 88 90 91 92 94 95 97 98 Prologue to Don Sebastian ...
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... , and gives no light . All torments of the damn'd we find In only thee , O Jealousy ! Thou tyrant , tyrant Jealousy , Thou tyrant of the mind ! 10 15 00 20 25 330 PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . PROLOGUE TO THE RIVAL LADIES . 40 THE POEMS.
... , and gives no light . All torments of the damn'd we find In only thee , O Jealousy ! Thou tyrant , tyrant Jealousy , Thou tyrant of the mind ! 10 15 00 20 25 330 PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . PROLOGUE TO THE RIVAL LADIES . 40 THE POEMS.
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... prologue's done ; The wit is ended ere the play's begun . You now have habits , dances , scenes , and rhymes ; High language often ; ay , and sense , sometimes . As for a clear contrivance , doubt it not ; They blow out candles to give ...
... prologue's done ; The wit is ended ere the play's begun . You now have habits , dances , scenes , and rhymes ; High language often ; ay , and sense , sometimes . As for a clear contrivance , doubt it not ; They blow out candles to give ...
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ALBION AND ALBANIUS AMYNTAS Arcite arms beauty behold betwixt blood breast call'd Chaucer CHORUS damn dare dead death delight disdain dost Dryden e'en e'er earth Emily English EPILOGUE eyes fair fate fear fight fire fool fops GEORGE ETHERIDGE give grace happy haste heart heaven honour hope humour JOHN DRYDEN joys judge kind king live look'd lord Lord Roscommon lovers Lucretius mighty mind MOMUS monarch mortal muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er Ovid pain Palamon Phyllis Pindar pity plain play pleas'd pleasure poet prince PROLOGUE queen rais'd reign reviving play rhyme sacred scarce scenes sense sigh'd sing song Sophocles soul sound stage sweet Thebes thee Theocritus Theseus things thou thought Timotheus translated true twas UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Venus verse Virgil whate'er Whig words wretch writ write youth
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Page 17 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 17 - See the Furies arise! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Page 4 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 16 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
Page 4 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Page 13 - And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above — Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant spires he rode, When he to fair Olympia...
Page 186 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Page 12 - TwAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 183 - I have endeavoured to choose such fables, both ancient and modern, as contain in each of them some instructive moral ; which I could prove by induction, but the way is tedious ; and they leap foremost into sight, without the reader's trouble of looking after them. I wish I could affirm with a safe conscience, that I had taken the same care in all my former writings...
Page 14 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...