The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... grown , Whofe inhumanity , profufely fhown In damning crowds of fouls , may damn their own . I'll err at least on the fecurer fide , A convert free from malice and from pride . To my Friend , Mr. JOHN DRYDEN , on his feveral excellent ...
... grown , Whofe inhumanity , profufely fhown In damning crowds of fouls , may damn their own . I'll err at least on the fecurer fide , A convert free from malice and from pride . To my Friend , Mr. JOHN DRYDEN , on his feveral excellent ...
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... grow ; How wild Lycaon , chang'd by angry Gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling thro ' the woods . O may'st thou still the noble tale prolong , Nor age , nor fickness interrupt thy song : Then may we wondering read , how human ...
... grow ; How wild Lycaon , chang'd by angry Gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling thro ' the woods . O may'st thou still the noble tale prolong , Nor age , nor fickness interrupt thy song : Then may we wondering read , how human ...
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... Grown old in rhyme , but charming ev'n in years . Great Dryden next ! whofe tuneful muse affords The fweeteft numbers and the fitteft words . Whether in comic founds , or tragic airs , She forms her voice , fhe moves our fimiles and ...
... Grown old in rhyme , but charming ev'n in years . Great Dryden next ! whofe tuneful muse affords The fweeteft numbers and the fitteft words . Whether in comic founds , or tragic airs , She forms her voice , fhe moves our fimiles and ...
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... grow . VII . No borrow'd bays his temples did adorn , But to our crown he did fresh jewels bring ; Nor was his virtue poifon'd foon as born , With the too early thoughts of being king . VIII . Fortune , that eafy miftrefs to the young ...
... grow . VII . No borrow'd bays his temples did adorn , But to our crown he did fresh jewels bring ; Nor was his virtue poifon'd foon as born , With the too early thoughts of being king . VIII . Fortune , that eafy miftrefs to the young ...
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... grow . XX . When paft all offerings to Feretrian Jove , He Mars depos'd , and arms to gowns made yield ; Successful councils did him foon approve As fit for clofe intrigues , as open field . XXI . To fuppliant Holland he vouchfaf'd a ...
... grow . XX . When paft all offerings to Feretrian Jove , He Mars depos'd , and arms to gowns made yield ; Successful councils did him foon approve As fit for clofe intrigues , as open field . XXI . To fuppliant Holland he vouchfaf'd a ...
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Page 8 - Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms, as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the good how far — but far above the great ! ODE VI.
Page 317 - Our frailties help, our vice control, Submit the senses to the soul ; And when rebellious they are grown, Then lay thy hand, and hold them down.
Page 244 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 127 - Of men, by laws less circumscribed and bound ; They led their wild desires to woods and caves, And thought that all but savages were slaves.
Page 139 - To pass your doubtful title into law: If not; the people have a right supreme To make their kings; for kings are made for them. All empire is no more than pow'r in trust: Which when resum'd, can be no longer just. Succession, for the general good design'd...
Page 152 - If ancient fabrics nod and threat to fall, To patch the flaws and buttress up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty : but here fix the mark ; For all beyond it is to touch our ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels who base ends pursue, At once divine and human laws control, And mend the parts by ruin of the whole.
Page 134 - Heav'n has to all allotted, soon or late, Some lucky revolution of their fate, Whose motions, if we watch and guide with skill, (For...
Page 249 - Whence, but from heaven, could men unskilled in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths? or how, or why Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie? Unasked their pains, ungrateful their advice, Starving their gain, and martyrdom their price.
Page 146 - His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot ; Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Such frugal virtue malice may accuse...
Page 128 - Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree, In his defence his servants are as bold As if he had been born of beaten gold. The Jewish Rabbins, though their enemies, In this conclude them honest men and wise ; For 'twas their duty, all the learned think, T" espouse his cause by whom they eat and drink.