The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksPaterson, 1885 - English literature |
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... never renewed , they resumed the usual kindly intercourse of relations and friends . * " I am so many ways obliged to you , and so little able to return your favours , that , like those who owe too much , I can only live by getting ...
... never renewed , they resumed the usual kindly intercourse of relations and friends . * " I am so many ways obliged to you , and so little able to return your favours , that , like those who owe too much , I can only live by getting ...
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... never but in Samson's riddle meet . " Tis strange each line so great a weight should bear , And yet no sign of toil , no sweat appear . Either your art hides art , as stoics feign 5 10 15 Then least to feel , when most they suffer pain ...
... never but in Samson's riddle meet . " Tis strange each line so great a weight should bear , And yet no sign of toil , no sweat appear . Either your art hides art , as stoics feign 5 10 15 Then least to feel , when most they suffer pain ...
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... never had seen the monument which he attempts to describe ; for he has converted an irregular polygon into a regular hexagon , in order to suit his own system . Dryden sided with Charleton in his theory ; and , in the following elegant ...
... never had seen the monument which he attempts to describe ; for he has converted an irregular polygon into a regular hexagon , in order to suit his own system . Dryden sided with Charleton in his theory ; and , in the following elegant ...
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... never use , but for defence , To guard your own , or others ' innocence : Your foes are such , as they , not you , have made , And virtue may repel , though not invade . Such courage did the ancient heroes show , Who , when they might ...
... never use , but for defence , To guard your own , or others ' innocence : Your foes are such , as they , not you , have made , And virtue may repel , though not invade . Such courage did the ancient heroes show , Who , when they might ...
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... never will admit ; Pleasing , yet cold , like Cynthia's silver beam , The people's wonder , and the poet's theme . Distempered zeal , sedition , cankered hate , No more shall vex the Church , and tear the State ; No more shall faction ...
... never will admit ; Pleasing , yet cold , like Cynthia's silver beam , The people's wonder , and the poet's theme . Distempered zeal , sedition , cankered hate , No more shall vex the Church , and tear the State ; No more shall faction ...
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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.