The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volumen1J. Nichol, 1855 |
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... pleased , like them that woo At once a beauty and a fortune too . Of moral knowledge poesy was queen , And still she might , had wanton wits not been ; 15 20 330 40 1 The curious net , ' & c .: a compliment to a poem of Sir Robert's ...
... pleased , like them that woo At once a beauty and a fortune too . Of moral knowledge poesy was queen , And still she might , had wanton wits not been ; 15 20 330 40 1 The curious net , ' & c .: a compliment to a poem of Sir Robert's ...
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... pleased to visit this monument , and entertain yourself with the delightful view thereof , after the defeat of your army at Worcester . ' ' Lady Castlemain : ' this lady was for many years a favourite mistress of Charles II . , and was ...
... pleased to visit this monument , and entertain yourself with the delightful view thereof , after the defeat of your army at Worcester . ' ' Lady Castlemain : ' this lady was for many years a favourite mistress of Charles II . , and was ...
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... will sweet Ovid's ghost be pleased to hear His fame augmented by an English peer ; 1 1 ' An English peer : ' the Earl of Mulgrave . 28 40 50 60 How he embellishes his Helen's loves , Outdoes his softness 12 DRYDEN'S POEMS .
... will sweet Ovid's ghost be pleased to hear His fame augmented by an English peer ; 1 1 ' An English peer : ' the Earl of Mulgrave . 28 40 50 60 How he embellishes his Helen's loves , Outdoes his softness 12 DRYDEN'S POEMS .
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... pleased in humble way To write a trifle call'd a play . This truly is a degradation , But would oblige the crown and nation Next to your wise negotiation . If you pretend , as well you may , Your high degree , your friends will say ...
... pleased in humble way To write a trifle call'd a play . This truly is a degradation , But would oblige the crown and nation Next to your wise negotiation . If you pretend , as well you may , Your high degree , your friends will say ...
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... pleased the box and pit ; Yet those who blame thy tale applaud thy wit : So Terence plotted , but so Terence writ . Like his thy thoughts are true , thy language clean ; Even lewdness is made moral in thy scene . The hearers may for ...
... pleased the box and pit ; Yet those who blame thy tale applaud thy wit : So Terence plotted , but so Terence writ . Like his thy thoughts are true , thy language clean ; Even lewdness is made moral in thy scene . The hearers may for ...
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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.