The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Nide 2J. W. Parker and Son, 1854 - 299 sivua |
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... received a hundred broad pieces for his pains . This anecdote is recorded by Spence , on the authority of the priest already alluded to . But as we know nothing of the priest , or where he got his information , the authenticity of the ...
... received a hundred broad pieces for his pains . This anecdote is recorded by Spence , on the authority of the priest already alluded to . But as we know nothing of the priest , or where he got his information , the authenticity of the ...
Sivu 31
... receiving assistance from Sedley in the composition of his plays . The accusation itself is impro- bable . Sedley's style , artificial and premeditated , is in the opposite extreme to the rampant dialogue of Shadwell . He may have ...
... receiving assistance from Sedley in the composition of his plays . The accusation itself is impro- bable . Sedley's style , artificial and premeditated , is in the opposite extreme to the rampant dialogue of Shadwell . He may have ...
Sivu 34
... received , and , considering the very different tenets after- wards espoused by the writer , it may be presumed that he was not very anxious to revive it . The Religio Laici was addressed to a young friend on his translation of Simon's ...
... received , and , considering the very different tenets after- wards espoused by the writer , it may be presumed that he was not very anxious to revive it . The Religio Laici was addressed to a young friend on his translation of Simon's ...
Sivu 39
... received and most authorized . And their champion Bellarmine has told the world , in his apology , that the King of England is a vassal to the pope , ratione directi Dominiï , and that he holds in villanage of his Roman landlord . Which ...
... received and most authorized . And their champion Bellarmine has told the world , in his apology , that the King of England is a vassal to the pope , ratione directi Dominiï , and that he holds in villanage of his Roman landlord . Which ...
Sivu 54
... received , Is tried , and , after , for itself believed . The partial Papists would infer from hence , Their Church , in last resort , should judge the sense . But first they would assume , with wondrous art , Themselves to be the whole ...
... received , Is tried , and , after , for itself believed . The partial Papists would infer from hence , Their Church , in last resort , should judge the sense . But first they would assume , with wondrous art , Themselves to be the whole ...
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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.