The poetical works of John Dryden, ed. by C.C. Clarke1874 |
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Page xviii
... faces to books , to supply his exhausted exchequer . His good- humoured but heartless monarch set him on another task , for which he was never paid , writing a translation of Maim- bourg's " History of the League , " the object of which ...
... faces to books , to supply his exhausted exchequer . His good- humoured but heartless monarch set him on another task , for which he was never paid , writing a translation of Maim- bourg's " History of the League , " the object of which ...
Page xxiv
... face , with long gray hair floating down his cheeks , not unlike Coleridge , but without his dreamy eye , like a nebulous star . His conversa- tion was less sprightly than solid . Sometimes men suspected that he had " sold all his ...
... face , with long gray hair floating down his cheeks , not unlike Coleridge , but without his dreamy eye , like a nebulous star . His conversa- tion was less sprightly than solid . Sometimes men suspected that he had " sold all his ...
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... face that wept before . With ease such fond chimeras we pursue , As fancy frames for fancy to subdue : But when ourselves to action we betake , It shuns the mint like gold that chemists make . How hard was then his task ! at once to be ...
... face that wept before . With ease such fond chimeras we pursue , As fancy frames for fancy to subdue : But when ourselves to action we betake , It shuns the mint like gold that chemists make . How hard was then his task ! at once to be ...
Page 39
... face and antique gestures , at which we cannot forbear to laugh , because it is a deviation from nature . But though the same images serve equally for the Epic poesy , and for the historic and panegyric , which are branches of it , yet ...
... face and antique gestures , at which we cannot forbear to laugh , because it is a deviation from nature . But though the same images serve equally for the Epic poesy , and for the historic and panegyric , which are branches of it , yet ...
Page 49
... face his ship to anchor brought , And steeple - high stood propt upon the main . 63 At this excess of courage , all amazed , The foremost of his foes awhile withdraw : With such respect in enter'd Rome they gazed , Who on high chairs ...
... face his ship to anchor brought , And steeple - high stood propt upon the main . 63 At this excess of courage , all amazed , The foremost of his foes awhile withdraw : With such respect in enter'd Rome they gazed , Who on high chairs ...
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Absalom Absalom and Achitophel Achitophel Albion and Albanius Amyntas Arcite beauty behold Bessus blessing blest blood bold breast Charles Charles II Chaucer Church crimes crowd crown cursed dare David's death design'd divine Dryden English eyes faction fair faith fame fate father fear fight fire foes fool force friends grace hand happy hast heart Heaven Hind honour hope Jebusites JOHN DRYDEN judge kind king labour land laws live lord mighty mind monarch Muse nature ne'er never noble numbers o'er once Ovid Panther peace plain play plot poem poet praise pretend prince Prologue race rage reign rest rhyme royal sacred satire Scripture sects seem'd sense Shadwell sight soul sure thee Theseus thou thought throne true truth twas University of Oxford verse Virgil virtue Whigs wind wise words write youth
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Page 30 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Page 62 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Page 90 - Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain, And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain; Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew. Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 296 - But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
Page 111 - Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. These out of mere instinct, they knew not why, Adored their fathers...
Page 100 - A daring pilot in extremity; 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.
Page 295 - Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Page 112 - He laughed himself from Court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief : For spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel ; Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Page 96 - Of men by laws less circumscribed and bound, They led their wild desires to woods and caves And thought that all but savages were slaves.
Page 185 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.