The poetical works of John Dryden, ed. by C.C. Clarke1874 |
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... gain . 22 Fame of the asserted sea through Europe blown , Made France and Spain ambitious of his love ; Each knew that side must conquer he would own ; And for him fiercely , as for empire , strove . 23 No sooner was the Frenchman's ...
... gain . 22 Fame of the asserted sea through Europe blown , Made France and Spain ambitious of his love ; Each knew that side must conquer he would own ; And for him fiercely , as for empire , strove . 23 No sooner was the Frenchman's ...
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... gain'd : Who yet a king alone in name and right , With hunger , cold , and angry Jove did fight ; Shock'd by a covenanting league's vast powers , As holy and as catholic as ours : Till fortune's fruitless spite had made it known , Her ...
... gain'd : Who yet a king alone in name and right , With hunger , cold , and angry Jove did fight ; Shock'd by a covenanting league's vast powers , As holy and as catholic as ours : Till fortune's fruitless spite had made it known , Her ...
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... gain . Henceforth their fougue1 must spend at lesser rate , Than in its flames to wrap a nation's fate . Suffer'd to live , they are like helots set , A virtuous shame within us to beget . For by example most we sinn'd before , And ...
... gain . Henceforth their fougue1 must spend at lesser rate , Than in its flames to wrap a nation's fate . Suffer'd to live , they are like helots set , A virtuous shame within us to beget . For by example most we sinn'd before , And ...
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... gain their subjects ' heart , Who love that praise in which themselves have part . By you he fits those subjects to obey , As heaven's eternal Monarch does convey His power unseen , and man to his designs , By his bright ministers the ...
... gain their subjects ' heart , Who love that praise in which themselves have part . By you he fits those subjects to obey , As heaven's eternal Monarch does convey His power unseen , and man to his designs , By his bright ministers the ...
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... gain'd at home . Ah , what concerns did both your souls divide ! Your honour gave us what your love denied : And ' twas for him much easier to subdue Those foes he fought with , than to part from you . That glorious day , which two such ...
... gain'd at home . Ah , what concerns did both your souls divide ! Your honour gave us what your love denied : And ' twas for him much easier to subdue Those foes he fought with , than to part from you . That glorious day , which two such ...
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appear arms bear beauty better blood bring cause Charles Church common crimes crowd crown dare death doubtful Dryden English equal eyes face fair faith fall fame fate father fear fight fire foes force friends gain give grace ground hand happy hast head heart Heaven honour hope judge kind king land laws least leave less light live look lord lost mean mighty mind Muse nature never o'er once peace plain play poem poet praise prince Prologue prove race raise reason reign rest rise royal rule sacred secure sense side sight soul stand subjects success sure thee things thou thought true truth turn verse virtue whole wind wise write young 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.