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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... grace ? ° Ours was a Levite , and as times went then , His tribe were God almighty's gentlemen . ° Sunk were his eyes , his voice was harsh and loud , Sure signs he neither choleric was nor proud : His long chin proved his wit ; his ...
... grace ? ° Ours was a Levite , and as times went then , His tribe were God almighty's gentlemen . ° Sunk were his eyes , his voice was harsh and loud , Sure signs he neither choleric was nor proud : His long chin proved his wit ; his ...
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John Dryden Keith Walker. 10 To Her Grace the Duchess of Ormonde Madam , The bard who first adorned our native tongue ° Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song ; Which Homer might without a blush rehearse ... Grace the Duchess of Ormonde.
John Dryden Keith Walker. 10 To Her Grace the Duchess of Ormonde Madam , The bard who first adorned our native tongue ° Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song ; Which Homer might without a blush rehearse ... Grace the Duchess of Ormonde.
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... grace of heaven . Thus from a captive Servius Tullus rose , Whom for his virtues the first Romans chose . Fabricius from their walls repelled the foe , ° Whose noble hands had exercised the plough . From hence , my lord , and love , I ...
... grace of heaven . Thus from a captive Servius Tullus rose , Whom for his virtues the first Romans chose . Fabricius from their walls repelled the foe , ° Whose noble hands had exercised the plough . From hence , my lord , and love , I ...
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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