The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English poetry |
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... happy in a memory tenacious of every thing , that he had read . He was not more poffefs'd of knowledge , than he was communicative of it : but then his communication of it was by no means pe- dantic , or impos'd upon the conversation ...
... happy in a memory tenacious of every thing , that he had read . He was not more poffefs'd of knowledge , than he was communicative of it : but then his communication of it was by no means pe- dantic , or impos'd upon the conversation ...
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... happy all , Could we but prove thus aftronomical . Liv'd Tycho 4 now , ftruck with this ray which fhone More bright i ' th ' morn ' , than others beam at noon , He'd take his astrolabe , and feek out here What new star ' twas did gild ...
... happy all , Could we but prove thus aftronomical . Liv'd Tycho 4 now , ftruck with this ray which fhone More bright i ' th ' morn ' , than others beam at noon , He'd take his astrolabe , and feek out here What new star ' twas did gild ...
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... happy RESTORATION and RETURN of His Sacred Majesty CHARLES the Second , 1660 . Jam redit & virgo , redeunt Saturnia regna . VIRG . The laft great age foretold by facred rhimes Renews its finish'd courfe ; Saturnian times Roll round ...
... happy RESTORATION and RETURN of His Sacred Majesty CHARLES the Second , 1660 . Jam redit & virgo , redeunt Saturnia regna . VIRG . The laft great age foretold by facred rhimes Renews its finish'd courfe ; Saturnian times Roll round ...
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... happy prince , whom heav'n hath taught the way , By paying vows to have more vows to pay ! Oh happy age ! Oh times like thofe alone , By fate referv'd for great Auguftus ' throne ! When the joint growth of arms and arts forefhew The ...
... happy prince , whom heav'n hath taught the way , By paying vows to have more vows to pay ! Oh happy age ! Oh times like thofe alone , By fate referv'd for great Auguftus ' throne ! When the joint growth of arms and arts forefhew The ...
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... beneath his years to stoop , Nor do his wings with fickly feathers droop : Soft western winds waft o'er the gaudy fpring , And open'd scenes of flowers and blossoms bring , To To grace this happy day , while you appear , [ 24 ]
... beneath his years to stoop , Nor do his wings with fickly feathers droop : Soft western winds waft o'er the gaudy fpring , And open'd scenes of flowers and blossoms bring , To To grace this happy day , while you appear , [ 24 ]
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Page 129 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 45 - The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit; and wit in the poet, or Wit writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction), is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after; or, without metaphor, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.
Page 119 - Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful harp had strung And Heaven had wanted one immortal song.
Page 117 - And rak'd for converts even the court and stews: Which Hebrew priests the more unkindly took, Because the fleece accompanies the flock. Some thought they God's anointed meant to...
Page 283 - Refine and purge our earthly parts ; But, oh, inflame and fire our hearts ! 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 229 - Which each presum'd he best could understand, The common rule was made the common prey ; And at the mercy of the rabble lay. The tender page with horny...
Page 230 - Tis some relief, that points not clearly known, Without much hazard, may be let alone...
Page 129 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Page xvi - 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 133 - And all his pow'r against himself employs. He gives, and let him give my right away: But why should he his own, and yours betray? He, only he can make the nation bleed, And he alone from my revenge is freed. Take then my tears...