The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksPaterson, 1885 |
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Sivu 22
... known ; as also his repartee to a coxcomb , who told him it was easy to write like a madman : " No , " answered the poet , " it is not easy to write like a madman , but it is very easy to write like a fool . " Dryden elegantly ...
... known ; as also his repartee to a coxcomb , who told him it was easy to write like a madman : " No , " answered the poet , " it is not easy to write like a madman , but it is very easy to write like a fool . " Dryden elegantly ...
Sivu 24
... known soe'er , is long delayed , And then , too , fools and knaves are better paid . Yet , as some actions bear so great a name , That courts themselves are just , for fear of shame ; So has the mighty merit of your play Extorted praise ...
... known soe'er , is long delayed , And then , too , fools and knaves are better paid . Yet , as some actions bear so great a name , That courts themselves are just , for fear of shame ; So has the mighty merit of your play Extorted praise ...
Sivu 26
... known as to be even trite and hackneyed , were then almost new to the literary world , and that translation was but then beginning to be emancipated from the fetters of verbal and literal versions . But Johnson elsewhere does Roscommon ...
... known as to be even trite and hackneyed , were then almost new to the literary world , and that translation was but then beginning to be emancipated from the fetters of verbal and literal versions . But Johnson elsewhere does Roscommon ...
Sivu 29
... known , First in the peaceful triumphs of the gown ; Who both Minervas justly makes his own . Now let the few beloved by Jove , and they Whom infused Titan formed of better clay , On equal terms with ancient wit engage , Nor mighty ...
... known , First in the peaceful triumphs of the gown ; Who both Minervas justly makes his own . Now let the few beloved by Jove , and they Whom infused Titan formed of better clay , On equal terms with ancient wit engage , Nor mighty ...
Sivu 46
... known to the present age as a tragic writer , for his Isabella has been ranked among the first - rate parts of our inimitable Siddons - was also distinguished by his contemporaries as a successful candidate for the honours of the comic ...
... known to the present age as a tragic writer , for his Isabella has been ranked among the first - rate parts of our inimitable Siddons - was also distinguished by his contemporaries as a successful candidate for the honours of the comic ...
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Æneid ANNE KILLIGREW appear Arcite arms beauty behold betwixt blood Boccace breast called Canterbury Tales Chanticleer charms Chaucer COUNTESS OF ABINGDON coursers crowned Cymon dame daughter death divine dream Dryden Duke Emily EPISTLE eyes fair fame fate father favour fear fight fire force fortune gave Godfrey Kneller grace grief Guiscard hand happy hast heart heaven honour kind king knew knight KNIGHT'S TALE lady laurel live lord Lysimachus maid mind mortal mourning muse never noble numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon panegyric play pleased pleasure poem poet poetry praise prince pursue queen race rest Reynard seems sighed sight SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE song soul stood sung sweet tale Tancred tears Thebes thee Theseus thou thought took translation Twas verses Virgil virtue wife WIFE OF BATH words youth
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Sivu 186 - 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 171 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Sivu 173 - To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Sivu 162 - 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.
Sivu 77 - 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.
Sivu 210 - Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Sivu 187 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Sivu 172 - What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? When Jubal struck the chorded shell His listening brethren stood around. And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell That spoke so sweetly and so wel1.
Sivu 190 - 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!
Sivu 230 - Wife of Bath. But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.