The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Nide 3W. Pickering, 1832 |
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Sivu 11
... cast not back a pitying eye ; But left her lover in despair , To sigh , to languish , and to die : Ah , how can those fair eyes endure To give the wounds they will not cure ! Great god of love , why hast thou made A face that can all ...
... cast not back a pitying eye ; But left her lover in despair , To sigh , to languish , and to die : Ah , how can those fair eyes endure To give the wounds they will not cure ! Great god of love , why hast thou made A face that can all ...
Sivu 55
... cast upon the taste of the town in these three lines , " Twere folly now a stately pile to raise , To build a playhouse while you throw down plays , While scenes , machines , and empty operas reign : ' is certainly levelled at the ...
... cast upon the taste of the town in these three lines , " Twere folly now a stately pile to raise , To build a playhouse while you throw down plays , While scenes , machines , and empty operas reign : ' is certainly levelled at the ...
Sivu 57
... . Hart , the speaker of this prologue , who had served his majesty as a captain in the civil war , and was now an actor in a capital cast , and in great estimation . D. What rests , and what is conquer'd , of the OF DRYDEN . 57 57.
... . Hart , the speaker of this prologue , who had served his majesty as a captain in the civil war , and was now an actor in a capital cast , and in great estimation . D. What rests , and what is conquer'd , of the OF DRYDEN . 57 57.
Sivu 62
... cast , The first of this , and hindmost of the last . A losing gamester , let him sneak away ; He bears no ready money from the play . The fate , which governs poets , thought it fit 25 He should not raise his fortunes by his wit . The ...
... cast , The first of this , and hindmost of the last . A losing gamester , let him sneak away ; He bears no ready money from the play . The fate , which governs poets , thought it fit 25 He should not raise his fortunes by his wit . The ...
Sivu 64
... casts all the hair before , Till he with full decorum brings it back , And rises with a water - spaniel shake . As for his songs , the ladies ' dear delight , These sure he took from most of you who write . Yet every man is safe from ...
... casts all the hair before , Till he with full decorum brings it back , And rises with a water - spaniel shake . As for his songs , the ladies ' dear delight , These sure he took from most of you who write . Yet every man is safe from ...
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ALBION AND ALBANIUS AMYNTAS Arcite arms beauty behold betwixt blood breast call'd Chaucer CHORUS damn dare dead death delight disdain dost Dryden e'en e'er earth Emily English EPILOGUE eyes fair fate fear fight fire fool fops GEORGE ETHERIDGE give grace happy haste heart heaven honour hope humour JOHN DRYDEN joys judge kind king live look'd lord Lord Roscommon lovers Lucretius mighty mind MOMUS monarch mortal muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er Ovid pain Palamon Phyllis Pindar pity plain play pleas'd pleasure poet prince PROLOGUE queen rais'd reign reviving play rhyme sacred scarce scenes sense sigh'd sing song Sophocles soul sound stage sweet Thebes thee Theocritus Theseus things thou thought Timotheus translated true twas UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Venus verse Virgil whate'er Whig words wretch writ write youth
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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...