The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Nide 2J. Nichol, 1855 |
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Sivu v
... judge a book written in the style and manner of one age by the merely arbitrary and conventional rules . established in another , as to judge the dress of our ances- tors by the fashions of the present day . And in respect of morality ...
... judge a book written in the style and manner of one age by the merely arbitrary and conventional rules . established in another , as to judge the dress of our ances- tors by the fashions of the present day . And in respect of morality ...
Sivu 8
... judge by my success . I had the Grecian poet's happiness , Who , waving plots , found out a better way ; Some god descended , and preserved the play . When first the triumphs of your sex were sung By those old poets , beauty was but ...
... judge by my success . I had the Grecian poet's happiness , Who , waving plots , found out a better way ; Some god descended , and preserved the play . When first the triumphs of your sex were sung By those old poets , beauty was but ...
Sivu 10
... judges of the race . Despise those drones , who praise , while they accuse The too much vigour of your youthful Muse . That humble style which they your virtue make , Is in your power ; you need but stoop and take . Your beauteous ...
... judges of the race . Despise those drones , who praise , while they accuse The too much vigour of your youthful Muse . That humble style which they your virtue make , Is in your power ; you need but stoop and take . Your beauteous ...
Sivu 52
... judges . For my comfort , they are but Englishmen , and , as such , if they think ill of me to - day , they are incon- stant enough to think well of me to - morrow . And after all , I have not much to thank my fortune that I was born ...
... judges . For my comfort , they are but Englishmen , and , as such , if they think ill of me to - day , they are incon- stant enough to think well of me to - morrow . And after all , I have not much to thank my fortune that I was born ...
Sivu 113
... judges of the town Would pass a vote to put all prologues down : For who can show me , since they first were writ , They e'er converted one hard - hearted wit ? Yet the world's mended well ; in former days Good prologues were as scarce ...
... judges of the town Would pass a vote to put all prologues down : For who can show me , since they first were writ , They e'er converted one hard - hearted wit ? Yet the world's mended well ; in former days Good prologues were as scarce ...
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Absalom and Achitophel ALBION AND ALBANIUS Amyntas Arcite arms beauteous beauty began behold betwixt blood breast Chandos portrait Chanticleer charms Chaucer command COUNTESS OF ABINGDON coursers crown'd dare death design'd divine dream Dryden envy EPISTLE eyes fair fame fate fear fight fire foes fool gave genius give grace hand happy hast heart heaven honour JOHN DRYDEN judge kind king knight ladies laurel light live look'd lord love in vain lyre mighty mind Momus mortal Muse nature ne'er never noble numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pain Palamon pass'd peace Phyllis play pleased pleasure poem poet poetry praise prince PROLOGUE queen race reign rest rhyme sacred scarce sigh sight sing song soul Stonehenge sung sweet Thebes thee Theseus thine thou thought translated true turn'd Twas verse Virgil virtue wife writ youth