The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Nide 2J. W. Parker and Son, 1854 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 16
... sound from thy corrupted part ? I called thee Nile ; the parallel will stand : Thy tides of wealth o'erflow the fattened land ; Yet monsters from thy large increase we find , Engendered on the slime thou leavest behind . Sedition has ...
... sound from thy corrupted part ? I called thee Nile ; the parallel will stand : Thy tides of wealth o'erflow the fattened land ; Yet monsters from thy large increase we find , Engendered on the slime thou leavest behind . Sedition has ...
Sivu 49
... sound of a Messiah's birth Is gone through all the habitable earth ; But still that text must be confined alone To what was then inhabited , and known : And what provision could from thence accrue To Indian souls , and worlds discovered ...
... sound of a Messiah's birth Is gone through all the habitable earth ; But still that text must be confined alone To what was then inhabited , and known : And what provision could from thence accrue To Indian souls , and worlds discovered ...
Sivu 51
... sounds endured ? Calvinist ministers , who translated the Bible into Latin in the sixteenth century , with learned commentaries . Tremellius translated the Bible from the Syriac . Simon , in the critical history previously referred to ...
... sounds endured ? Calvinist ministers , who translated the Bible into Latin in the sixteenth century , with learned commentaries . Tremellius translated the Bible from the Syriac . Simon , in the critical history previously referred to ...
Sivu 64
... sound Which even the best can hardly bear ; He took the summons void of fear , And unconcernedly cast his eyes around , As if to find and dare the grisly challenger . What death could do he lately tried , When in four days he more than ...
... sound Which even the best can hardly bear ; He took the summons void of fear , And unconcernedly cast his eyes around , As if to find and dare the grisly challenger . What death could do he lately tried , When in four days he more than ...
Sivu 67
... sound , Nor any least tumultuous breath ; Calm was his life , and quiet was his death . Soft as those gentle whispers were , In which the Almighty did appear ; By the still voice the prophet knew him there . That peace which made thy ...
... sound , Nor any least tumultuous breath ; Calm was his life , and quiet was his death . Soft as those gentle whispers were , In which the Almighty did appear ; By the still voice the prophet knew him there . That peace which made thy ...
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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.