The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Nide 2J. W. Parker and Son, 1854 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 237
... Canterbury Tales into our language , as it is now refined ; for by this means , both the poets being set in the same light , and dressed in the same English habit , story to be compared with story , a certain judg- ment may be made ...
... Canterbury Tales into our language , as it is now refined ; for by this means , both the poets being set in the same light , and dressed in the same English habit , story to be compared with story , a certain judg- ment may be made ...
Sivu 242
... Canterbury Tales ; yet that of Palamon and Arcite was written , in all probability , by some Italian wit in a former age ; as I shall prove hereafter : the tale of Grizild was the invention of Petrarch ; by him sent to Boccace , from ...
... Canterbury Tales ; yet that of Palamon and Arcite was written , in all probability , by some Italian wit in a former age ; as I shall prove hereafter : the tale of Grizild was the invention of Petrarch ; by him sent to Boccace , from ...
Sivu 246
... Canterbury Tales : neither has his contemporary Boccace spared them . Yet both those poets lived in much esteem with good and holy men in orders : for the scandal which is given by particular priests , reflects not on the sacred ...
... Canterbury Tales : neither has his contemporary Boccace spared them . Yet both those poets lived in much esteem with good and holy men in orders : for the scandal which is given by particular priests , reflects not on the sacred ...
Sivu 247
... Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours ( as we now call them ) of the whole English nation , in his age . Not a single character has escaped him . All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other ; and not only in ...
... Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours ( as we now call them ) of the whole English nation , in his age . Not a single character has escaped him . All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other ; and not only in ...
Sivu 248
... Canterbury Tales , thus excuses the ribaldry , which is very gross in many of his novels : ' But first , I pray you of your courtesy , That ye ne arrettee it nought my villany , Though that I plainly speak in this mattere To tellen you ...
... Canterbury Tales , thus excuses the ribaldry , which is very gross in many of his novels : ' But first , I pray you of your courtesy , That ye ne arrettee it nought my villany , Though that I plainly speak in this mattere To tellen you ...
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Absalom and Achitophel ancient Anne Killigrew appear Arcite arms beauty began betwixt blessed blood Boccace Boccacio breast Canterbury Tales Chandos portrait charity Chaucer Church conscience crowd crown dare death defence divine doctrine doom Dryden Duchess of York Emily eyes fair faith fame fate fear Flecknoe foes force grace hand happy hast Heaven Hind honour hope JOHN DRYDEN judge kind king labouring laws lines lived look lord Mac Flecknoe mercy mighty mind mortal Muse nature never night numbers o'er Ovid pain Palamon panegyric Panther peace Petrarch Pirithous plain poem poet poetry praise prince queen race reason reign Religio Laici rest royal sacred satire Scripture sects sense Shadwell sight soul sovereign stood sure Thebes thee Theseus thine thou thought translated true truth Twas verse Virgil virtue words writ youth
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Sivu 206 - 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 26 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Sivu 207 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes...
Sivu 211 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down.
Sivu 90 - A MILK-WHITE Hind, immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns and in the forest ranged ; Without unspotted, innocent within, She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
Sivu 168 - 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 92 - Follow'd false lights ; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am ; Be thine the glory and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task : my doubts are done ; What more could shock my faith than Three in One ? " In drawing Dryden's character, Johnson has given, though I suppose unintentionally, some touches of his own.
Sivu 31 - admiring throng loud acclamations make And omens of his future empire take. The sire then shook the honours of his head, And from his brows damps of oblivion shed Full on the filial...
Sivu 168 - 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 well.
Sivu 255 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.