The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Nide 3W. Pickering, 1832 |
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Sivu 50
... verse , This motley garniture of fool and farce , Nor scorn a mode , because ' tis taught at home , Which does , like vests , our gravity become , Our poet yields you should this play refuse : As tradesmen , by the change of fashions ...
... verse , This motley garniture of fool and farce , Nor scorn a mode , because ' tis taught at home , Which does , like vests , our gravity become , Our poet yields you should this play refuse : As tradesmen , by the change of fashions ...
Sivu 62
... verse can do , he has perform'd in this , Which he presumes the most correct of his ; But spite of all his pride , a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Aw'd when he hears his godlike Romans rage , 15 He , in ...
... verse can do , he has perform'd in this , Which he presumes the most correct of his ; But spite of all his pride , a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Aw'd when he hears his godlike Romans rage , 15 He , in ...
Sivu 65
... verse , and yours in prose : For , ' faith , the quarrel rightly understood , ' Tis civil war with their own flesh and blood . The threadbare author hates the gaudy coat ; And swears at the gilt coach , but swears afoot : For ' tis ...
... verse , and yours in prose : For , ' faith , the quarrel rightly understood , ' Tis civil war with their own flesh and blood . The threadbare author hates the gaudy coat ; And swears at the gilt coach , but swears afoot : For ' tis ...
Sivu 68
... verse , or said in prose , Then , Edipus , on crowded theatres , Drew all admiring eyes and list'ning ears : The pleas'd spectator shouted every line , The noblest , manliest , and the best design ! And every critic of each learned age ...
... verse , or said in prose , Then , Edipus , on crowded theatres , Drew all admiring eyes and list'ning ears : The pleas'd spectator shouted every line , The noblest , manliest , and the best design ! And every critic of each learned age ...
Sivu 87
... verse , no fustian tumour , No dribbling love , from this or that presumer ; No dull fat fool shamm'd on the stage for humour . For , faith , some of ' em such vile stuff have made , As none but fools or fairies ever play'd ; But ' twas ...
... verse , no fustian tumour , No dribbling love , from this or that presumer ; No dull fat fool shamm'd on the stage for humour . For , faith , some of ' em such vile stuff have made , As none but fools or fairies ever play'd ; But ' twas ...
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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...