The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksW. Paterson, 1892 |
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... a cause so just , Or your own beauties or my love distrust ? Long since , had you required my helpful hand , The artificer and art you might command , 505 510 } 515 520 525 To labour arms for Troy : nor Jove , nor 16 BOOK VIII . ENEÏS .
... a cause so just , Or your own beauties or my love distrust ? Long since , had you required my helpful hand , The artificer and art you might command , 505 510 } 515 520 525 To labour arms for Troy : nor Jove , nor 16 BOOK VIII . ENEÏS .
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... labour add the night : 545 Thus frugally they earn their children's bread , And uncorrupted keep the nuptial bed— Not less concerned , nor at a later hour , Rose from his downy couch the forging power . Sacred to Vulcan's name , an isle ...
... labour add the night : 545 Thus frugally they earn their children's bread , And uncorrupted keep the nuptial bed— Not less concerned , nor at a later hour , Rose from his downy couch the forging power . Sacred to Vulcan's name , an isle ...
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... labour patient , earn their bread ; Hardly they work , with frugal diet fed . From ploughs and harrows sent to seek renown , They fight in fields , and storm the shaken town . No part of life from toils of war is free , 825 830 No ...
... labour patient , earn their bread ; Hardly they work , with frugal diet fed . From ploughs and harrows sent to seek renown , They fight in fields , and storm the shaken town . No part of life from toils of war is free , 825 830 No ...
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... labour spent , no longer can he wield The heavy falchion , or sustain the shield , O'erwhelmed with darts , which from afar they fling : 1090 The weapons round his hollow temples ring : His golden helm gives way , with stony blows ...
... labour spent , no longer can he wield The heavy falchion , or sustain the shield , O'erwhelmed with darts , which from afar they fling : 1090 The weapons round his hollow temples ring : His golden helm gives way , with stony blows ...
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... labour to the land , And ebbing tides bear back upon the uncertain sand . Nor Turnus leads his troops without delay , Advancing to the margin of the sea . The trumpets sound : Æneas first assailed 415 420 425 The clowns new - raised and ...
... labour to the land , And ebbing tides bear back upon the uncertain sand . Nor Turnus leads his troops without delay , Advancing to the margin of the sea . The trumpets sound : Æneas first assailed 415 420 425 The clowns new - raised and ...
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Æneas ancients appear Arcadian Aristotle arms Ascanius audience Ausonian bear Ben Jonson betwixt blank verse blood breast comedy coursers Crites dare dart death Dryden edition English Eugenius eyes falchion fame fatal fate father fault favour fear field fierce fight fire flames flies flood foes fool force French friends goddess gods grace ground hand haste head heaven hero honour humour Jonson Jove Juturna king labour lance Latian Lausus Lisideius Lord Messapus Mezentius mind Mnestheus muse nature never numbers o'er Pallas passions peace persons plain play pleased plot poem poesy poet poetry prince rage rest rhyme Rutulians satire scene Sejanus sense Shakespeare shield sight Silent Woman Sir Robert Howard sire slain Sophocles soul sound spear stage sword Tarchon thee thou thought town tragedy trembling Trojan troops Turnus Tuscan Virgil vows winds words wound writ write youth
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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.