Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell: Astræa Redux ; Annus Mirabilis ; Absalom and Achitophel ; Religio Laici ; The Hind and the PantherClarendon Press, 1878 - 301 pages |
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... Lord Macaulay has been unjust in ascribing Dryden's change of religion to interested motivesa . & History of England , vol . ii . p . 96 . During the greater part of the year 1686 Dryden was C 2 BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION . XXXV.
... Lord Macaulay has been unjust in ascribing Dryden's change of religion to interested motivesa . & History of England , vol . ii . p . 96 . During the greater part of the year 1686 Dryden was C 2 BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION . XXXV.
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... religion . This poem is in the form of a dialogue between a milkwhite Hind , representing the Church of Rome , and a Panther , representing the Church of England ; and the Hind has of course the best of the dis- cussion . The author of ...
... religion . This poem is in the form of a dialogue between a milkwhite Hind , representing the Church of Rome , and a Panther , representing the Church of England ; and the Hind has of course the best of the dis- cussion . The author of ...
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... religion made it impossible for him to take the oaths required of all holders of office , and to recant now would have been at once indecent and unprofitable . His offices of Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal , his place in the ...
... religion made it impossible for him to take the oaths required of all holders of office , and to recant now would have been at once indecent and unprofitable . His offices of Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal , his place in the ...
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... religion and conform to the tests required for office . In his poem ' Eleonora , ' written in 1691 , in honour of the memory of the Countess of Abingdon , for which he received a very handsome pe- cuniary reward of five hundred guineas ...
... religion and conform to the tests required for office . In his poem ' Eleonora , ' written in 1691 , in honour of the memory of the Countess of Abingdon , for which he received a very handsome pe- cuniary reward of five hundred guineas ...
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... , in The Reasons for Mr. Bayes changing his Religion . ' i Defence of the Essay on Dramatic Poesy . kA Satire to his Muse . I Spence's Anecdotes . from himself , a youth of seventeen , and a d 2 BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION . li.
... , in The Reasons for Mr. Bayes changing his Religion . ' i Defence of the Essay on Dramatic Poesy . kA Satire to his Muse . I Spence's Anecdotes . from himself , a youth of seventeen , and a d 2 BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION . li.
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Page 241 - 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.
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 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 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.
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 283 - 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 131 - 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 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 92 - 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 honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page xxiii - But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.