The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3W. Pickering, 1832 |
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... hope no relief ; Undone by your virtue , too strict and severe , Your eyes gave me love , and you gave me despair ; Now call'd by my honour , I seek with content The fate which in pity you would not prevent : To languish in love , were ...
... hope no relief ; Undone by your virtue , too strict and severe , Your eyes gave me love , and you gave me despair ; Now call'd by my honour , I seek with content The fate which in pity you would not prevent : To languish in love , were ...
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... hope to come floating up with a spring tyde . ' Armida is said to have been the beautiful Frances Stuart , wife of Charles , Duke of Richmond . Captain Digby was killed at sea in the engagement between the English and Dutch fleet , off ...
... hope to come floating up with a spring tyde . ' Armida is said to have been the beautiful Frances Stuart , wife of Charles , Duke of Richmond . Captain Digby was killed at sea in the engagement between the English and Dutch fleet , off ...
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... hope not to win : From without , my desire Has no food to its fire ; But it burns and consumes me within . SHE . Yet , at least , ' tis a pleasure to know That you are not unhappy alone : For the nymph you adore Is as wretched , and 30 ...
... hope not to win : From without , my desire Has no food to its fire ; But it burns and consumes me within . SHE . Yet , at least , ' tis a pleasure to know That you are not unhappy alone : For the nymph you adore Is as wretched , and 30 ...
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... hope relieves the lover's pain . But , ah ! no cure but death we find , To set us free From Jealousy : O Jealousy ! Thou tyrant , tyrant Jealousy , Thou tyrant of the mind ! False in thy glass all objects are , Some set too near , and ...
... hope relieves the lover's pain . But , ah ! no cure but death we find , To set us free From Jealousy : O Jealousy ! Thou tyrant , tyrant Jealousy , Thou tyrant of the mind ! False in thy glass all objects are , Some set too near , and ...
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... hope to find it here . PROLOGUE TO THE INDIAN QUEEN . As the music plays a soft air , the curtain rises slowly , and discovers an Indian boy and girl sleeping under two plan- tain - trees ; and , when the curtain is almost up , the ...
... hope to find it here . PROLOGUE TO THE INDIAN QUEEN . As the music plays a soft air , the curtain rises slowly , and discovers an Indian boy and girl sleeping under two plan- tain - trees ; and , when the curtain is almost up , the ...
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Page 17 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 17 - See the Furies arise! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Page 4 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 16 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
Page 4 - 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?
Page 13 - And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above — Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant spires he rode, When he to fair Olympia...
Page 186 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Page 12 - 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...
Page 183 - I have endeavoured to choose such fables, both ancient and modern, as contain in each of them some instructive moral ; which I could prove by induction, but the way is tedious ; and they leap foremost into sight, without the reader's trouble of looking after them. I wish I could affirm with a safe conscience, that I had taken the same care in all my former writings...
Page 14 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...