John Dryden, Nide 10Oxford University Press, 1987 - 967 sivua Dryden's poetry is straightforward, bold, and energetic. He was in the public eye for some forty years, holding positions at court for a long period of time. He was indisputably perceived as the leading writer of his day. He excelled in all the types of writing practiced at the time. He wrote more, and in more genres than anyone. He accumulated to himself (it is a odd distinction) a huge mass of attacks, ranging from the reasoned to the scabrous. Dryden explained his attitudes and intentions in a large number of prologues, epilogues, prefaces, defences, and vindications-thereby quite casually producing the first body of what we now call 'criticism' in English. And yet his life and character remain something of a mystery. |
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Sivu 276
... death exempts him , and wards off the blow , Which we , the living , only feel and bear , ) What is there left for us in death to fear ? When once that pause of life has come between , ' Tis just the same as we had never been . And ...
... death exempts him , and wards off the blow , Which we , the living , only feel and bear , ) What is there left for us in death to fear ? When once that pause of life has come between , ' Tis just the same as we had never been . And ...
Sivu 277
... death thou leav'st behind ; No time shall dry our tears , nor drive thee from our mind . The worst that can befall thee , measured right , Is a sound slumber , and a long goodnight . Yet thus the fools , that would be thought the wits ...
... death thou leav'st behind ; No time shall dry our tears , nor drive thee from our mind . The worst that can befall thee , measured right , Is a sound slumber , and a long goodnight . Yet thus the fools , that would be thought the wits ...
Sivu 334
... death As precious gums are not for lasting fire , They but perfume the temple , and expire ; So was she soon exhaled , and vanished hence ; A short sweet odour of a vast expense . She vanished , we can scarcely say she died ; For but a ...
... death As precious gums are not for lasting fire , They but perfume the temple , and expire ; So was she soon exhaled , and vanished hence ; A short sweet odour of a vast expense . She vanished , we can scarcely say she died ; For but a ...
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To John Hoddesdon on his Divine Epigrams I | 1 |
Annus Mirabilis | 23 |
Absalom and Achitophel | 177 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Aeneas Aeneid Aesacus ancient Arcite Aristotle arms bear beauty behold Ben Jonson betwixt blessed blood breast Caeneus Chaucer Cinyras courser cried crime crown death Dryden e'en earth English eyes fair fame fate father fear fight fire flames force Georgics give goddess gods grace Greek ground hand haste head heart heaven honour Iliad John Dryden Jove kind king labour leave light live lord lover Lucretius maid Metamorphoses mighty mind mortal muse nature never night numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon Pindar Pirithous plain play pleased poem poet praise Priam prince pursue queen race rage rest rhyme Roman sacred Satire of Juvenal seas Sejanus sighed sight sire skies soul stood sweet sword tears thee Theseus thou thought translation Twas verse Virgil vows wife wind words youth