The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksPaterson, 1885 |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 83
Sivu 5
... poets was afterwards suspended for some time , in consequence of Sir Robert's strictures on the " Essay on Dramatic Poetry , " and Dryden's contemptuous refutation of his criticism . But there is reason to believe that this interval of ...
... poets was afterwards suspended for some time , in consequence of Sir Robert's strictures on the " Essay on Dramatic Poetry , " and Dryden's contemptuous refutation of his criticism . But there is reason to believe that this interval of ...
Sivu 6
... poetic composition , for which , to judge by his own immediate practice , he ought rather to have censured them . Those who may be induced to peruse the works of Sir Robert Howard by the high commendation here bestowed upon them , will ...
... poetic composition , for which , to judge by his own immediate practice , he ought rather to have censured them . Those who may be induced to peruse the works of Sir Robert Howard by the high commendation here bestowed upon them , will ...
Sivu 10
... poet doth confess . Ere our weak eyes discerned the doubtful streak Of light , you saw great Charles his morning break : + So skilful seamen ken the land from far , Which shows like mists to the dull passenger . To Charles your muse ...
... poet doth confess . Ere our weak eyes discerned the doubtful streak Of light , you saw great Charles his morning break : + So skilful seamen ken the land from far , Which shows like mists to the dull passenger . To Charles your muse ...
Sivu 14
... poets still might dream the sun was drowned ; And all the stars , that shine in southern skies , Had been admired by none but savage eyes . * The copy prefixed to the " Chorea Gigantum " reads , Until ' twas . [ There is no authority ...
... poets still might dream the sun was drowned ; And all the stars , that shine in southern skies , Had been admired by none but savage eyes . * The copy prefixed to the " Chorea Gigantum " reads , Until ' twas . [ There is no authority ...
Sivu 19
... had more wit , The censure of every man did disdain ; Pleading some pitiful rhymes he had writ In praise of the Countess of Castlemaine . Session of the Poets , 1670 . EPISTLE THE FOURTH . As seamen , shipwracked on some EPISTLES . 19.
... had more wit , The censure of every man did disdain ; Pleading some pitiful rhymes he had writ In praise of the Countess of Castlemaine . Session of the Poets , 1670 . EPISTLE THE FOURTH . As seamen , shipwracked on some EPISTLES . 19.
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
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
Suositut otteet
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.