John Dryden, 10. köideOxford University Press, 1987 - 967 pages Dryden's poetry is straightforward, bold, and energetic. He was in the public eye for some forty years, holding positions at court for a long period of time. He was indisputably perceived as the leading writer of his day. He excelled in all the types of writing practiced at the time. He wrote more, and in more genres than anyone. He accumulated to himself (it is a odd distinction) a huge mass of attacks, ranging from the reasoned to the scabrous. Dryden explained his attitudes and intentions in a large number of prologues, epilogues, prefaces, defences, and vindications-thereby quite casually producing the first body of what we now call 'criticism' in English. And yet his life and character remain something of a mystery. |
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Page 101
... reason might render him more wary another time , and make him punish himself with harder fare and coarser clothes , to get it up again . But that he should look upon it as a judgment , and so repent , we may expect to hear of in a ...
... reason might render him more wary another time , and make him punish himself with harder fare and coarser clothes , to get it up again . But that he should look upon it as a judgment , and so repent , we may expect to hear of in a ...
Page 221
... reason , but he has been pleased to descend to us ; and what Socrates said of him , what Plato writ , and the rest of the heathen philosophers of several nations , is all no more than the twilight of revelation , after the sun of it was ...
... reason , but he has been pleased to descend to us ; and what Socrates said of him , what Plato writ , and the rest of the heathen philosophers of several nations , is all no more than the twilight of revelation , after the sun of it was ...
Page 229
... reason reach infinity ? For what could fathom God were more than he . The Deist thinks he stands on firmer ground ; Cries : ' Euρnka , the mighty secret's found : ° God is that spring of good ; supreme and best ; We , made to serve ...
... reason reach infinity ? For what could fathom God were more than he . The Deist thinks he stands on firmer ground ; Cries : ' Euρnka , the mighty secret's found : ° God is that spring of good ; supreme and best ; We , made to serve ...
Contents
To John Hoddesdon on his Divine Epigrams I | 1 |
Annus Mirabilis | 23 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 177 |
Copyright | |
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Absalom and Achitophel Aeneas Aeneid Aesacus ancient Arcite Aristotle arms bear beauty behold Ben Jonson betwixt blessed blood breast Caeneus Chaucer Cinyras courser cried crime crown death Dryden e'en earth English eyes fair fame fate father fear fight fire flames force Georgics give goddess gods grace Greek ground hand haste head heart heaven honour Iliad John Dryden Jove kind king labour leave light live lord lover Lucretius maid Metamorphoses mighty mind mortal muse nature never night numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon Pindar Pirithous plain play pleased poem poet praise Priam prince pursue queen race rage rest rhyme Roman sacred Satire of Juvenal seas Sejanus sighed sight sire skies soul stood sweet sword tears thee Theseus thou thought translation Twas verse Virgil vows wife wind words youth