Stanzas on the death of Oliver Cromwell; Astræa redux; Annus mirabilis; Absalom and Achitophel; Religio laici; The hind and the panther. Ed. by W.D. Christie1871 |
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... hands , and he translated , by order of the King , Maimbourg's History of the League . ' In 1684 and 1685 he published successively two volumes of poetical Mis- cellanies , containing , with some poems by other authors , translations of ...
... hands , and he translated , by order of the King , Maimbourg's History of the League . ' In 1684 and 1685 he published successively two volumes of poetical Mis- cellanies , containing , with some poems by other authors , translations of ...
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... hand , Dryden wrote in September to his sons at Rome , after he had undertaken to produce this ode for November , " This is troublesome , and no way beneficial ; but I could not deny the stewards who came in a body to my house to desire ...
... hand , Dryden wrote in September to his sons at Rome , after he had undertaken to produce this ode for November , " This is troublesome , and no way beneficial ; but I could not deny the stewards who came in a body to my house to desire ...
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... hands . Kings make their poets whom themselves think fit , But ' tis your suffrage makes authentic wit . ' m The plays of Dryden , as plays , contribute little to his fame . They were mostly hastily composed , and written as money ...
... hands . Kings make their poets whom themselves think fit , But ' tis your suffrage makes authentic wit . ' m The plays of Dryden , as plays , contribute little to his fame . They were mostly hastily composed , and written as money ...
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... hand And drew it perfect , yet without a shade . 16 Peace was the prize of all his toil and care , Which war had banished and did now restore : Bologna's walls thus mounted in the air To seat themselves more surely than before . 17 Her ...
... hand And drew it perfect , yet without a shade . 16 Peace was the prize of all his toil and care , Which war had banished and did now restore : Bologna's walls thus mounted in the air To seat themselves more surely than before . 17 Her ...
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... hand gaining what on that he lost , Though in his life he blood and ruin breathed , To his now guideless kingdom peace bequeathed ; And Heaven , that seemed regardless of our fate , For France and Spain did miracles create Such mortal ...
... hand gaining what on that he lost , Though in his life he blood and ruin breathed , To his now guideless kingdom peace bequeathed ; And Heaven , that seemed regardless of our fate , For France and Spain did miracles create Such mortal ...
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Page 275 - They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. 6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
Page lvi - But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 237 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Page 273 - 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 90 - 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 100 - 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 129 - 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 259 - 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 260 - And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass he lived.
Page 101 - 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...