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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... weighty truths , solid convincing sense , Explained by unaffected eloquence . ' A drama , the ' Duke of Guise , ' a joint work of Dryden and C Nathaniel Lee , was brought out in December 1682. The BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION . xxxiii.
... weighty truths , solid convincing sense , Explained by unaffected eloquence . ' A drama , the ' Duke of Guise , ' a joint work of Dryden and C Nathaniel Lee , was brought out in December 1682. The BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION . xxxiii.
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... sense they give the lie And turn distorted words to blasphemy , They give the scandal ; and the wise discern Their glosses teach an age too apt to learn . What I have loosely or profanely writ Let them to fires , their due desert ...
... sense they give the lie And turn distorted words to blasphemy , They give the scandal ; and the wise discern Their glosses teach an age too apt to learn . What I have loosely or profanely writ Let them to fires , their due desert ...
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... sense , but such as by mistaken words have corrupted it . ' This little volume , which Sir Walter Scott does not appear to have seen , contains the best text . Tonson's reprint , in quarto , of 1688 contains several changes of text ...
... sense , but such as by mistaken words have corrupted it . ' This little volume , which Sir Walter Scott does not appear to have seen , contains the best text . Tonson's reprint , in quarto , of 1688 contains several changes of text ...
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... sense . ' Twas not the hasty product of a day , But the well - ripened fruit of wise delay . He , like a patient angler , ere he strook , Would let them play a while upon the hook . Our healthful food the stomach labours thus , At first ...
... sense . ' Twas not the hasty product of a day , But the well - ripened fruit of wise delay . He , like a patient angler , ere he strook , Would let them play a while upon the hook . Our healthful food the stomach labours thus , At first ...
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... sense of all the rest . But in 30 this necessity of our rhymes , I have always found the couplet verse most easy ( though not so proper for this occasion ) , for there the work is sooner at an end , every two lines con- cluding the ...
... sense of all the rest . But in 30 this necessity of our rhymes , I have always found the couplet verse most easy ( though not so proper for this occasion ) , for there the work is sooner at an end , every two lines con- cluding the ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Albion and Albanius Annus Mirabilis Astrĉa Redux battle blood bold called changed Charles Church of England common Compare conscience Cromwell death dedicated Derrick doctrine Dryden Duchess Duke of Guise Duke of York Dutch Earl edition of 1688 editors English faith fame fate father fear fight fire fleet foes France French friends grace Heaven Hind Holland honour Hudibras including Scott Jebusites kind King laws Lord means mighty never numbers o'er Oliver Cromwell original edition Ovid Palamon and Arcite Panther passage peace plain play poet Pope Popish Plot praise Preface Prince printed published Queen refers Reformation reign Religio Laici religion rest Restoration rhymes Roman Catholic sacred Satire says Scripture sects sense Shaftesbury Shakespeare shards sons soul spelling spelt stanza thou thought Threnodia Augustalis throne Tis true translation Twas verse Virgil wind wings word
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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.