Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell: Astraea Redux; Annus Mirabilis; Absalom and Achitophel; Religio Laici; The Hind and the PantherClarendon Press, 1871 - 294 pages |
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... friends , high hopes of future eminence . When these hopes were destroyed by his untimely death from small pox , when he was just of age , in 1649 , the event was lamented in as many as thirty - three elegies by different authors ...
... friends , high hopes of future eminence . When these hopes were destroyed by his untimely death from small pox , when he was just of age , in 1649 , the event was lamented in as many as thirty - three elegies by different authors ...
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... friend and schoolfellow , was probably written at the beginning of Dryden's residence at Cambridge . Hoddesden's little volume bore the title ' Sion and Parnassus , ' and was published in 1650 . Dryden was entered at Trinity College ...
... friend and schoolfellow , was probably written at the beginning of Dryden's residence at Cambridge . Hoddesden's little volume bore the title ' Sion and Parnassus , ' and was published in 1650 . Dryden was entered at Trinity College ...
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... friendship . High in Cromwell's favour , a member of his Privy Council , and Chamberlain of his household , he was in a position to render valuable assistance to his clever young cousin . Shadwell , after taunting Dryden with ...
... friendship . High in Cromwell's favour , a member of his Privy Council , and Chamberlain of his household , he was in a position to render valuable assistance to his clever young cousin . Shadwell , after taunting Dryden with ...
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... friend and zealous patron of Dryden . ' Marriage à la Mode ' had been dedicated to Wilmot Earl of Rochester , who later became Dryden's virulent enemy , but of whom he now said , addressing him , ' you have not only been careful of my ...
... friend and zealous patron of Dryden . ' Marriage à la Mode ' had been dedicated to Wilmot Earl of Rochester , who later became Dryden's virulent enemy , but of whom he now said , addressing him , ' you have not only been careful of my ...
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... friends in commemoration of his triumph . The sale of ' Absalom and Achitophel ' was so rapid that a second edition appeared within a month . The medal celebrating Shaftes- bury's escape from his persecutors furnished Dryden with a ...
... friends in commemoration of his triumph . The sale of ' Absalom and Achitophel ' was so rapid that a second edition appeared within a month . The medal celebrating Shaftes- bury's escape from his persecutors furnished Dryden with a ...
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Page 276 - I AB do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testify and declare, that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of . Christ, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever...
Page 151 - A milk-white Hind, * immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns, and in the forest ranged ; Without unspotted, innocent within, She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
Page 275 - THE Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another; but rather is a Sacrament of our Redemption by Christ's death : insomuch that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith, receive the same, the Bread which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ ; and likewise the Cup of Blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ.
Page 92 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied. And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honor blest.
Page 102 - 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 279 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Page 26 - I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble and of greater dignity both for the sound and number than any other verse in use amongst us ; in which I am sure I have your approbation.
Page 261 - With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies : alas ! how changed from him That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim...
Page 103 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil, That every man with him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert, Beggared by fools whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had...
Page x - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.