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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... speaking dis- paragingly of the play , but , as he said , ' out of no feigned modesty , ' he proceeds in this prologue : - ' Not that it's worse than what before he writ , But he has now another taste of wit : And to confess a truth ...
... speaking dis- paragingly of the play , but , as he said , ' out of no feigned modesty , ' he proceeds in this prologue : - ' Not that it's worse than what before he writ , But he has now another taste of wit : And to confess a truth ...
Page xxix
... speaking both with the King and the Duke of York of his desire to devote himself to the production of a national epic poem , and he now asked Mulgrave to remind the King of his ambition . Several years later , in 1693 , in his ...
... speaking both with the King and the Duke of York of his desire to devote himself to the production of a national epic poem , and he now asked Mulgrave to remind the King of his ambition . Several years later , in 1693 , in his ...
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... speak of that triumphant day , When you renewed the expiring pomp of May ! A month that owns an interest in your name ; You and the flowers are its peculiar claim . 285 That star , that at your birth shone out so bright It stained the ...
... speak of that triumphant day , When you renewed the expiring pomp of May ! A month that owns an interest in your name ; You and the flowers are its peculiar claim . 285 That star , that at your birth shone out so bright It stained the ...
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... , or the reader's . 30 I leave them to speak for me ; and , if they can , to make out that character , not pretending to a greater , which I have given them . VERSES TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS , On the 32 ACCOUNT OF ANNUS MIRABILIS .
... , or the reader's . 30 I leave them to speak for me ; and , if they can , to make out that character , not pretending to a greater , which I have given them . VERSES TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS , On the 32 ACCOUNT OF ANNUS MIRABILIS .
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... speak thick like angry men ; It seemed as slaughter had been breathed all night And Death new pointed his dull dart again . I2I The Dutch too well his mighty conduct know And matchless courage , since the former fight ; Whose navy like ...
... speak thick like angry men ; It seemed as slaughter had been breathed all night And Death new pointed his dull dart again . I2I The Dutch too well his mighty conduct know And matchless courage , since the former fight ; Whose navy like ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Albion and Albanius Annus Mirabilis Astrĉa Redux blood called changed Charles Church of England cloth College 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 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 Popish Plot praise Preface Prince printed published Queen Reformation reign Religio Laici religion Restoration rhymes Roman Catholic sacred Satire says Scripture sects sense Shaftesbury Shakespeare shards soul spelling spelt stanza thou thought Threnodia Augustalis translation Twas 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...