The Poetical Works of John Dryden, 3. köideW. Pickering, 1832 |
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... judges of the town Would pass a vote to put all prologues down : For who can show me , since they first were writ , They e'er converted one hard - hearted wit ? Yet the world's mended well ; in former days 5 Good prologues were as ...
... judges of the town Would pass a vote to put all prologues down : For who can show me , since they first were writ , They e'er converted one hard - hearted wit ? Yet the world's mended well ; in former days 5 Good prologues were as ...
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... judges all you see within the pit ? 1. Whom would he then except , or on what score ? [ made , 2. All who ( like him ) have writ ill plays before ; For they , like thieves condemn'd , are hangmen To execute the members of their trade ...
... judges all you see within the pit ? 1. Whom would he then except , or on what score ? [ made , 2. All who ( like him ) have writ ill plays before ; For they , like thieves condemn'd , are hangmen To execute the members of their trade ...
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... judge both best by our success . EPILOGUE TO THE INDIAN QUEEN . SPOKEN BY MONTEZUMA . You see what shifts we are enforc'd to try , To help out wit with some variety ; Shows may be found that never yet were seen , " Tis hard to find such ...
... judge both best by our success . EPILOGUE TO THE INDIAN QUEEN . SPOKEN BY MONTEZUMA . You see what shifts we are enforc'd to try , To help out wit with some variety ; Shows may be found that never yet were seen , " Tis hard to find such ...
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... judge all doggerel rhyme ; All proves , and moves , and loves , and honours too ; All that appears high sense , and scarce is low . As for the coffee wits , he says not much ; Their proper business is to damn the Dutch : For the great ...
... judge all doggerel rhyme ; All proves , and moves , and loves , and honours too ; All that appears high sense , and scarce is low . As for the coffee wits , he says not much ; Their proper business is to damn the Dutch : For the great ...
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... judge or write . Therefore our poet , as he thinks not fit To impose upon you what he writes for wit ; So hopes , that , leaving you your censures free , You equal judges of the whole will be : They judge but half , who only faults will ...
... judge or write . Therefore our poet , as he thinks not fit To impose upon you what he writes for wit ; So hopes , that , leaving you your censures free , You equal judges of the whole will be : They judge but half , who only faults will ...
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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...