The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksPaterson, 1885 - English literature |
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... better taught at home , yet please us less ; So in your verse a native sweetness dwells , Which shames composure , * and its art excels . Singing no more can your soft numbers grace , Than paint adds charms unto a beauteous face.t Yet ...
... better taught at home , yet please us less ; So in your verse a native sweetness dwells , Which shames composure , * and its art excels . Singing no more can your soft numbers grace , Than paint adds charms unto a beauteous face.t Yet ...
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... better way ; Some god descended , and preserved the play . When first the triumphs of your sex were sung By those old poets , beauty was but young , And few admired the native red and white , Till poet's dressed them up to charm the ...
... better way ; Some god descended , and preserved the play . When first the triumphs of your sex were sung By those old poets , beauty was but young , And few admired the native red and white , Till poet's dressed them up to charm the ...
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... better paid . Yet , as some actions bear so great a name , That courts themselves are just , for fear of shame ; So has the mighty merit of your play Extorted praise , and forced itself a way . " Tis here as ' tis at sea ; who furthest ...
... better paid . Yet , as some actions bear so great a name , That courts themselves are just , for fear of shame ; So has the mighty merit of your play Extorted praise , and forced itself a way . " Tis here as ' tis at sea ; who furthest ...
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... better clay , On equal terms with ancient wit engage , Nor mighty Homer fear , nor sacred Virgil's page : Our English palace opens wide in state , And without stooping they may pass the gate . * In this verse , which savours of the ...
... better clay , On equal terms with ancient wit engage , Nor mighty Homer fear , nor sacred Virgil's page : Our English palace opens wide in state , And without stooping they may pass the gate . * In this verse , which savours of the ...
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... 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 . 5 10 15 20 25 For her , the weeping heavens become serene ; For.
... 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 . 5 10 15 20 25 For her , the weeping heavens become serene ; For.
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Æneid ANNE KILLIGREW appear Arcite arms beauty behold betwixt blood Boccace breast called Canterbury Tales Chanticleer charms Chaucer COUNTESS OF ABINGDON coursers crowned Cymon dame daughter death divine dream Dryden Duke Emily EPISTLE eyes fair fame fate father favour fear fight fire force fortune gave Godfrey Kneller grace grief Guiscard hand happy hast heart heaven honour kind king knew knight KNIGHT'S TALE lady laurel live lord Lysimachus maid mind mortal mourning muse never noble numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon panegyric play pleased pleasure poem poet poetry praise prince pursue queen race rest Reynard seems sighed sight SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE song soul stood sung sweet tale Tancred tears Thebes thee Theseus thou thought took translation Twas verses Virgil virtue wife WIFE OF BATH words youth
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Page 186 - 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 171 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Page 173 - 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 162 - 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 77 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Page 210 - Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Page 187 - 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 172 - 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 wel1.
Page 190 - Now strike the golden lyre again! A louder yet, and yet a louder strain, Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark! the horrid sound Has raised up his head! As awaked from the dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge! revenge!
Page 230 - Wife of Bath. But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.