The Poetical Works of John Dryden, 1. köideAppleton, 1856 - 524 pages |
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... never hope to have indulged in that career of literary pursuit , which the new order of things presented to the ambition of the youthful poet ; at least , he lost no time in useless lamentation , but , now in his thirtieth year ...
... never hope to have indulged in that career of literary pursuit , which the new order of things presented to the ambition of the youthful poet ; at least , he lost no time in useless lamentation , but , now in his thirtieth year ...
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... never did appear ; Proud her returning Prince to entertain With the submitted fasces of the main . AND welcome now , great monarch , to your own ; Behold th ' approaching cliffs of Albion : It is no longer motion cheats your view , As ...
... never did appear ; Proud her returning Prince to entertain With the submitted fasces of the main . AND welcome now , great monarch , to your own ; Behold th ' approaching cliffs of Albion : It is no longer motion cheats your view , As ...
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... never must be free ; Envy , that does with misery reside , The joy and the revenge of ruin'd pride . Think it not hard , if at so cheap a rate You can secure the constancy of fate , Whose kindness sent what does their malice seem , By ...
... never must be free ; Envy , that does with misery reside , The joy and the revenge of ruin'd pride . Think it not hard , if at so cheap a rate You can secure the constancy of fate , Whose kindness sent what does their malice seem , By ...
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... never can be . Never had prince or people more mutual reason to love each other , if suffering for each other can endear affection . You have come together a pair of matchless lovers , through many difficulties ; he , through a long ...
... never can be . Never had prince or people more mutual reason to love each other , if suffering for each other can endear affection . You have come together a pair of matchless lovers , through many difficulties ; he , through a long ...
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... never suffer in a nobler cause . For I have chosen the most heroic subject which any poet could desire : I have taken upon me to describe the motives , the beginning , progress , and successes of a most just and necessary war : in it ...
... never suffer in a nobler cause . For I have chosen the most heroic subject which any poet could desire : I have taken upon me to describe the motives , the beginning , progress , and successes of a most just and necessary war : in it ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Achitophel ALBION AND ALBANIUS AMYNTAS Arcite arms beauty behold betwixt blood bold breast call'd Chanticleer Church coursers court crime crowd crown crown'd dame dare death design'd divine Dryden durst e'en eyes fair faith fame fate father fear fight fire flames foes fool force fortune grace hand happy hast heart Heaven honour hope Jebusites JOHN DRYDEN judge kind king knew knight land laws live look'd lord mighty mind monarch muse ne'er never noble numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pain Palamon pass'd peace Pirithous plain play poem poets praise prey prince queen race rage reign rest Reynard rhyme royal sacred satire seem'd sense Shadwell sight soul stood sweet Thebes thee Theseus thou thought throne true turn'd Twas UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD verse virtue whate'er Whig wind wise youth
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Page 73 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 496 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride : — Happy, happy, happy pair ! None but the brave None but the brave None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 497 - 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...
Page 138 - DIM as the borrowed beams of moon and stars | To lonely, weary, wandering travellers,* ' Is reason to the soul : and as, on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows reason at religion's sight, ~ So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 500 - And glittering temples of their hostile gods. — The princes applaud with a furious joy : And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy ; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy...
Page 502 - Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well.
Page 82 - Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 148 - Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Page 82 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Page 500 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before.