The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volumen1J. Nichol, 1855 |
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... o'er , Shall brithers be , for a ' that , " " " The two odes on St Cecilia's Day are both admirable in different ways . " Alexander's Feast , " like Burns's " Tam o'Shanter , " seems to come out at once as from a mould . " It is pure ...
... o'er , Shall brithers be , for a ' that , " " " The two odes on St Cecilia's Day are both admirable in different ways . " Alexander's Feast , " like Burns's " Tam o'Shanter , " seems to come out at once as from a mould . " It is pure ...
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... o'er , for one rebuke . But if thou wouldst be seen , as well as read , Copy one living author , and one dead : 1 Wife ' the wife in the play , Mrs Friendall . 10 20 20 The standard of thy style let Etheredge be ; For 18 DRYDEN'S POEMS .
... o'er , for one rebuke . But if thou wouldst be seen , as well as read , Copy one living author , and one dead : 1 Wife ' the wife in the play , Mrs Friendall . 10 20 20 The standard of thy style let Etheredge be ; For 18 DRYDEN'S POEMS .
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... o'er the skeletons are spread , Those clothed with flesh , and life inspires the dead ; 1 ' Orinda : ' Mrs Catherine Philips , author of a book of poems , died , like Mrs Killigrew , of the small - pox , in 1664 , being only thirty ...
... o'er the skeletons are spread , Those clothed with flesh , and life inspires the dead ; 1 ' Orinda : ' Mrs Catherine Philips , author of a book of poems , died , like Mrs Killigrew , of the small - pox , in 1664 , being only thirty ...
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... o'er his future Roman race , And marshalling the heroes of his name , As , in their order , next to light they came . Nor Cybele , with half so kind an eye , Survey'd her sons and daughters of the sky ; Proud , shall I say , of her ...
... o'er his future Roman race , And marshalling the heroes of his name , As , in their order , next to light they came . Nor Cybele , with half so kind an eye , Survey'd her sons and daughters of the sky ; Proud , shall I say , of her ...
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... o'er , And after some few leaves should find no more , Nought but a blank remain , a dead void space , A step of life that promised such a race . We must not , dare not think , that Heaven began A child , and could not finish him a man ...
... o'er , And after some few leaves should find no more , Nought but a blank remain , a dead void space , A step of life that promised such a race . We must not , dare not think , that Heaven began A child , and could not finish him a man ...
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ALBION AND ALBANIUS Amyntas Arcite arms beauteous beauty began behold better betwixt blood Boccace bore breast call'd Canterbury tales Chanticleer charms Chaucer coursers crown'd dare death divine dream Dryden Emily eyes fair fame fate fear fight fire fool fortune genius grace green ground hand happy hast heart Heaven honour JOHN DRYDEN judge kind king knight ladies laurel light live look'd lord maid mighty mind Momus mortal Muse ne'er never noble numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pain Palamon pass'd Pirithous plain play pleased pleasure poem poet poetry pointed lance praise prince PROLOGUE queen race rest Reynard rhyme sacred scarce seem'd sight sing song soul steed stood sung sweet Thebes thee Theseus thine thou thought true turn'd Twas UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Venus verse Virgil virtue Whigs wife youth
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Página 103 - His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he Heaven and Earth defied Changed his hand and check'd his pride. He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse: He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood; Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth exposed he lies Alexander's Feast 109 With not a friend to close his eyes.
Página 102 - 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...
Página 72 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 101 - Happy, happy, happy pair ! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair.
Página 30 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Página 105 - Now strike the golden lyre again ; A louder yet, and yet a louder strain. Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark, the horrid sound Has raised up his head; As awaked from the dead, And, amazed, he stares around. •Revenge, revenge!
Página 104 - is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying: If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying; Lovely Tha'is sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
Página 106 - 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. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies: She drew an angel down.
Página 201 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If lie be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Página 193 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.