The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 - English literature |
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... fate , Her sight is purchased at an easy rate . Three gloomy years against this day were set ; But this one mighty sum has cleared the debt ; Like Joseph's dream , but with a better doom , The famine past , the plenty still to come ...
... fate , Her sight is purchased at an easy rate . Three gloomy years against this day were set ; But this one mighty sum has cleared the debt ; Like Joseph's dream , but with a better doom , The famine past , the plenty still to come ...
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... fate's decree To be performed and sung by thee . } Thou break'st through forms with as much ease As the French king through articles . In grand affairs thy days are spent , In waging weighty compliment , With such as monarchs represent ...
... fate's decree To be performed and sung by thee . } Thou break'st through forms with as much ease As the French king through articles . In grand affairs thy days are spent , In waging weighty compliment , With such as monarchs represent ...
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... fate is an instance , among a thousand , of the disadvantage sustain- ed by an inferior genius , who enters into collision with one of supereminent talents . It is the combat of a gun - boat with a frigate ; and many an author has been ...
... fate is an instance , among a thousand , of the disadvantage sustain- ed by an inferior genius , who enters into collision with one of supereminent talents . It is the combat of a gun - boat with a frigate ; and many an author has been ...
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... on his eighty - first birth day , was complimented with a copy of verses by Pope ; and on 26th May , 1746 , he died at the advanced age of eighty - five and upwards . VOL . XI . EPISTLE THE TENTH . SURE there's a fate in plays EPISTLES .
... on his eighty - first birth day , was complimented with a copy of verses by Pope ; and on 26th May , 1746 , he died at the advanced age of eighty - five and upwards . VOL . XI . EPISTLE THE TENTH . SURE there's a fate in plays EPISTLES .
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... fate in plays , and ' tis in vain To write , while these malignant planets reign . Some very foolish influence rules the pit , Not always kind to sense , or just to wit ; And whilst it lasts , let buffoonry succeed , To make us laugh ...
... fate in plays , and ' tis in vain To write , while these malignant planets reign . Some very foolish influence rules the pit , Not always kind to sense , or just to wit ; And whilst it lasts , let buffoonry succeed , To make us laugh ...
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Page 183 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride : — Happy, happy, happy pair ! None but the brave None but the brave None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 160 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 186 - Revolving in his altered soul The various turns of Chance below ; And, now and then, a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
Page 169 - Sharp violins proclaim Their jealous pangs and desperation, Fury, frantic indignation, Depth of pains and height of passion For the fair disdainful dame.
Page 316 - But whither went his soul, let such relate Who search the secrets of the future state : Divines can say but what themselves believe ; Strong proofs they have, but not demonstrative ; For, were all plain, then all sides must agree, And faith itself be lost in certainty. To live uprightly, then, is sure the best ; To save ourselves, and not to damn the rest.
Page 170 - To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Page 62 - Thou shalt be seen (Though with some short parenthesis between) High on the throne of wit; and seated there, Not mine (that's little) but thy laurel wear. Thy first attempt an early promise made; That early promise this has more than paid. So bold, yet so judiciously you dare, That your least praise is to be regular. Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Page 190 - CREATOR spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come visit every pious mind ; Come pour thy joys on human kind ; From sin and sorrow set us free, And make thy temples worthy thee.
Page 185 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain...
Page 191 - Chase from our minds the infernal foe, And peace, the fruit of love, bestow ; And, lest our feet should step astray, Protect and guide us in the way. Make us eternal truths receive, And practise all that we believe : Give us thyself, that we may see The Father, and the Son, by thee. Immortal honour, endless fame, Attend the...