The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksW. Paterson, 1892 |
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... Honour our annual feast ; and take your seat , With friendly welcome , at a homely treat . " Thus having said , the bowls ( removed for fear ) The youths replaced , and soon restored the cheer . On sods of turf he set the soldiers round ...
... Honour our annual feast ; and take your seat , With friendly welcome , at a homely treat . " Thus having said , the bowls ( removed for fear ) The youths replaced , and soon restored the cheer . On sods of turf he set the soldiers round ...
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... honours , ever due , for ever shall be paid . For these deserts , and this high virtue shown , Ye warlike youths , your heads with garlands crown : Fill high the goblets with a sparkling flood , And with deep draughts invoke our common ...
... honours , ever due , for ever shall be paid . For these deserts , and this high virtue shown , Ye warlike youths , your heads with garlands crown : Fill high the goblets with a sparkling flood , And with deep draughts invoke our common ...
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... honour and his dangers share ? " Then spurring on , his brandished dart he threw , In sign of war : applauding shouts ensue . 60 Amazed to find a dastard race , that run Behind the rampires , and the battle shun , He rides around the ...
... honour and his dangers share ? " Then spurring on , his brandished dart he threw , In sign of war : applauding shouts ensue . 60 Amazed to find a dastard race , that run Behind the rampires , and the battle shun , He rides around the ...
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... honour to Messapus falls , 190 195 To keep the nightly guard , to watch the walls , To pitch the fires at distances around , 200 And close the Trojans in their scanty ground . Twice seven Rutulian captains ready stand , And twice seven ...
... honour to Messapus falls , 190 195 To keep the nightly guard , to watch the walls , To pitch the fires at distances around , 200 And close the Trojans in their scanty ground . Twice seven Rutulian captains ready stand , And twice seven ...
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... honour charged its empty field . Light as he fell , so light the youth arose , And rising , found himself amidst his foes ; Nor flight was left , nor hopes to force his way . Emboldened by despair , he stood at bay ; And , like a stag ...
... honour charged its empty field . Light as he fell , so light the youth arose , And rising , found himself amidst his foes ; Nor flight was left , nor hopes to force his way . Emboldened by despair , he stood at bay ; And , like a stag ...
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Page 346 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 326 - ... the hero of the other side is to drive in before him; or to see a duel fought and one slain with two or three thrusts of the foils, which we know are so blunted that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them. "I have observed that in all our tragedies the audience cannot forbear laughing when the actors are to die; 'tis the most comic part of the whole play.
Page 284 - The drift of the ensuing discourse was chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them.
Page 295 - ... every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies : the work then being pushed on by many hands, must of necessity go forward.
Page 287 - After they had attentively listened, till such time as the sound by little and little went from them, Eugenius, lifting up his head and taking notice of it, was the first who congratulated to the rest that happy omen of our nation's victory, adding that we had but this to desire in confirmation of it, that we might hear no more of that noise which was now leaving the English coast.
Page 334 - A continued gravity keeps the spirit too much bent; we must refresh it sometimes, as we bait in a journey, that we may go on with greater ease.
Page 348 - Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe : they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection ; what words have since been taken in are rather superfluous than necessary.
Page 298 - ... that the time of the feigned action, or fable of the play, should be proportioned as near as can be to the duration of that time in which it is represented...
Page 371 - I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing betwixt what is nearest to the nature of comedy, which is the imitation of common persons and ordinary speaking, and what is nearest the nature of a serious play: this last is, indeed, the representation of Nature, but 'tis Nature wrought up to a higher pitch.
Page 345 - First, That we have many Plays of ours as regular as any of theirs; and which, besides, have more variety of Plot and Characters: And secondly, that in most of the irregular Plays of Shakespeare or Fletcher, (for Ben. Johnson's are for the most part regular) there is a more masculine fancy and greater spirit in the writing, than there is in any of the French.