The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Nide 2J. W. Parker and Son, 1854 - 299 sivua |
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... rising over the Tower , the date of his acquittal beneath , 24th November , 1681 , and above the legend Lætamur . ' ' In the representation of your own hero , ' says Dryden , in his dedica- tion of the poem to the Whigs , ' ' tis the ...
... rising over the Tower , the date of his acquittal beneath , 24th November , 1681 , and above the legend Lætamur . ' ' In the representation of your own hero , ' says Dryden , in his dedica- tion of the poem to the Whigs , ' ' tis the ...
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... rising sun , nor the Anno Domini of your new sovereign's coronation . This must needs be a grateful undertaking to your whole party : especially to those who have not been so happy as to purchase the original . I hear the graver has ...
... rising sun , nor the Anno Domini of your new sovereign's coronation . This must needs be a grateful undertaking to your whole party : especially to those who have not been so happy as to purchase the original . I hear the graver has ...
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... rise , First to dislike , and after to despise ; Then , Cyclop - like , in human flesh to deal , Chop up a minister at every meal ; Perhaps not wholly to melt down the king , But clip his regal rights within the ring ; * From thence to ...
... rise , First to dislike , and after to despise ; Then , Cyclop - like , in human flesh to deal , Chop up a minister at every meal ; Perhaps not wholly to melt down the king , But clip his regal rights within the ring ; * From thence to ...
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... rising fogs prevail upon the day . Besides , his goodly fabric fills the eye , And seems designed for thoughtless majesty ; Thoughtless as monarch oaks , that shade the plain , And , spread in solemn state , supinely reign . Heywood and ...
... rising fogs prevail upon the day . Besides , his goodly fabric fills the eye , And seems designed for thoughtless majesty ; Thoughtless as monarch oaks , that shade the plain , And , spread in solemn state , supinely reign . Heywood and ...
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... rise , Scenes of lewd loves , and of polluted joys , Where their vast courts the mother - strumpets keep , And , undisturbed by watch , in silence sleep . * Near these a Nursery erects its head , † Where queens are formed , and future ...
... rise , Scenes of lewd loves , and of polluted joys , Where their vast courts the mother - strumpets keep , And , undisturbed by watch , in silence sleep . * Near these a Nursery erects its head , † Where queens are formed , and future ...
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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.