The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksPaterson, 1885 - English literature |
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... heaven thy aim , hast had the grace 15 To look the Sun of Righteousness i ' the face . What may we hope , if thou goest on thus fast ? Scriptures at first , enthusiasms at last ! 20 Thou hast commenced , betimes , a saint ; go on ...
... heaven thy aim , hast had the grace 15 To look the Sun of Righteousness i ' the face . What may we hope , if thou goest on thus fast ? Scriptures at first , enthusiasms at last ! 20 Thou hast commenced , betimes , a saint ; go on ...
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... heaven , and your own light ; Like them are good , but from a nobler cause , From your own knowledge , not from nature's laws . Your power you never use , but for defence , To guard your own , or others ' innocence : Your foes are such ...
... heaven , and your own light ; Like them are good , but from a nobler cause , From your own knowledge , not from nature's laws . Your power you never use , but for defence , To guard your own , or others ' innocence : Your foes are such ...
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... heaven , this strange alteration in him portends nothing disastrous to the state ; but I have all along observed , that poets do religion as little service by drawing their pens for it , as the divines do poetry , by pretending to ...
... heaven , this strange alteration in him portends nothing disastrous to the state ; but I have all along observed , that poets do religion as little service by drawing their pens for it , as the divines do poetry , by pretending to ...
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... Heaven , that but once was prodigal before , To Shakespeare gave as much , -she could not give him more . Maintain your post ; that's all the fame you need ; For ' tis impossible you should proceed . Already I am worn with cares and age ...
... Heaven , that but once was prodigal before , To Shakespeare gave as much , -she could not give him more . Maintain your post ; that's all the fame you need ; For ' tis impossible you should proceed . Already I am worn with cares and age ...
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... heaven itself infused , Which Moses , David , Solomon , have used , Is now to be no more : the Muses ' foes Would sink their Maker's praises into prose . Were they content to prune the lavish vine Of straggling branches , and improve ...
... heaven itself infused , Which Moses , David , Solomon , have used , Is now to be no more : the Muses ' foes Would sink their Maker's praises into prose . Were they content to prune the lavish vine Of straggling branches , and improve ...
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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.