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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... Peace for Northamptonshire . The Drydens were all Puritans and Commonwealthmen . Sir Erasmus Dryden , who died in 1632 , the year after the birth of his celebrated grandson , was sent to prison , but a few years before his death in old ...
... Peace for Northamptonshire . The Drydens were all Puritans and Commonwealthmen . Sir Erasmus Dryden , who died in 1632 , the year after the birth of his celebrated grandson , was sent to prison , but a few years before his death in old ...
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... peaceful security which the able and vigorous government of the Pro- tector had bequeathed to his country . " No civil broils have since his death arose , But faction now by habit does obey ; And wars have that respect for his repose As ...
... peaceful security which the able and vigorous government of the Pro- tector had bequeathed to his country . " No civil broils have since his death arose , But faction now by habit does obey ; And wars have that respect for his repose As ...
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... 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 safety rescued Ireland to him owes ; And treacherous ...
... 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 safety rescued Ireland to him owes ; And treacherous ...
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... peace , Our once bold rival in the British main , Now tamely glad her unjust claim to cease And buy our friendship with her idol , gain . 22 Fame of the asserted sea , through Europe blown , Made France and Spain ambitious of his love ...
... peace , Our once bold rival in the British main , Now tamely glad her unjust claim to cease And buy our friendship with her idol , gain . 22 Fame of the asserted sea , through Europe blown , Made France and Spain ambitious of his love ...
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... peaceful urn shall rest ; His name a great example stands to show How strangely high endeavours may be blessed Where piety and valour jointly go . ASTREA REDUX . A POEM ON THE HAPPY RESTORATION AND 8 STANZAS ON OLIVER CROMWELL .
... peaceful urn shall rest ; His name a great example stands to show How strangely high endeavours may be blessed Where piety and valour jointly go . ASTREA REDUX . A POEM ON THE HAPPY RESTORATION AND 8 STANZAS ON OLIVER CROMWELL .
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Absalom and Achitophel Albion and Albanius Amalek Annus Mirabilis Astræa Redux blood called changed Charles Church Church of England cloth College common conscience Cromwell death dedicated Derrick doctrine Dryden Duchess Duke of Guise Duke of York Dutch Earl edition of 1688 editors England English faith fame fate father fcap fear fight fire fleet foes France French friends grace Heaven Hind Holland honour Hudibras including Scott Jebusites kind King laws London Lord means never o'er Oliver Cromwell original edition Ovid Oxford Palamon and Arcite Panther passage peace plain play poem poet Pope praise Prince printed published Reformation reign rest Restoration rhymes Roman Catholic sacred Satire says Scripture second edition sects sense Shaftesbury Shakespeare soul spelling spelt stanza thou thought Threnodia Augustalis throne Tis true translation Twas Uzza verse Virgil wind wings word
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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...