The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Nide 3W. Pickering, 1832 |
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Sivu 92
... Virgil owe ; Whose age enjoys but what his youth deserv'd , To rule those Muses whom before he serv'd . His learning , and untainted manners too , We find , Athenians , are deriv'd to you : Such ancient hospitality there rests In yours ...
... Virgil owe ; Whose age enjoys but what his youth deserv'd , To rule those Muses whom before he serv'd . His learning , and untainted manners too , We find , Athenians , are deriv'd to you : Such ancient hospitality there rests In yours ...
Sivu 119
... Virgil ; and immediately fixed upon some parts of them , which had most affected me in the reading . These were my natural impulses for the undertaking ; but there was an accidental motive which was full as forcible , and God forgive ...
... Virgil ; and immediately fixed upon some parts of them , which had most affected me in the reading . These were my natural impulses for the undertaking ; but there was an accidental motive which was full as forcible , and God forgive ...
Sivu 120
... Virgil , Homer , and some others , whose beauties I have been endeavouring all my life to imitate , so abused , as I may say , to their faces , by a botching interpreter . What English readers , unacquainted with Greek or Latin , will ...
... Virgil , Homer , and some others , whose beauties I have been endeavouring all my life to imitate , so abused , as I may say , to their faces , by a botching interpreter . What English readers , unacquainted with Greek or Latin , will ...
Sivu 121
... Virgil and Ovid , are very different : yet I see , even in our best poets , who have translated some parts of them , that they have confounded their several talents ; and , by en- deavouring only at the sweetness and harmony of numbers ...
... Virgil and Ovid , are very different : yet I see , even in our best poets , who have translated some parts of them , that they have confounded their several talents ; and , by en- deavouring only at the sweetness and harmony of numbers ...
Sivu 122
John Dryden. : several poets in this volume - Virgil , Theocritus , Lucretius , and Horace . In each of these , before I undertook them , I considered the genius and distinguishing character of my author . I looked on Virgil as a ...
John Dryden. : several poets in this volume - Virgil , Theocritus , Lucretius , and Horace . In each of these , before I undertook them , I considered the genius and distinguishing character of my author . I looked on Virgil as a ...
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Sivu 17 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Sivu 17 - See the Furies arise! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Sivu 4 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Sivu 16 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
Sivu 4 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Sivu 13 - And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above — Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant spires he rode, When he to fair Olympia...
Sivu 186 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Sivu 12 - TwAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Sivu 183 - I have endeavoured to choose such fables, both ancient and modern, as contain in each of them some instructive moral ; which I could prove by induction, but the way is tedious ; and they leap foremost into sight, without the reader's trouble of looking after them. I wish I could affirm with a safe conscience, that I had taken the same care in all my former writings...
Sivu 14 - 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...