The poetical works of John Dryden, ed. by C.C. Clarke1874 |
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... youth now have pretence to be Dunces securely , ignorant healthfully . Rare linguist , whose worth speaks itself , whose praise , Though not his own , all tongues besides do raise : Than whom great Alexander may seem less , Who conquer ...
... youth now have pretence to be Dunces securely , ignorant healthfully . Rare linguist , whose worth speaks itself , whose praise , Though not his own , all tongues besides do raise : Than whom great Alexander may seem less , Who conquer ...
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... youth betray By acts their age too late would wish undone . 10 And yet dominion was not his design ; We owe that blessing , not to him , but Heaven , Which to fair acts unsought rewards did join ; Rewards , that less to him , than us ...
... youth betray By acts their age too late would wish undone . 10 And yet dominion was not his design ; We owe that blessing , not to him , but Heaven , Which to fair acts unsought rewards did join ; Rewards , that less to him , than us ...
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... Youth that with joys had unacquainted been , Envied gray hairs that once good days had seen : We thought our sires , not with their own content , Had , ere we came to age , our portion spent . Nor could our nobles hope their bold ...
... Youth that with joys had unacquainted been , Envied gray hairs that once good days had seen : We thought our sires , not with their own content , Had , ere we came to age , our portion spent . Nor could our nobles hope their bold ...
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... youth to climb . Thus heavenly bodies do our time beget , And measure change , but share no part of it . And still it shall without a weight increase , Like this new year , whose motions never cease . For since the glorious course you ...
... youth to climb . Thus heavenly bodies do our time beget , And measure change , but share no part of it . And still it shall without a weight increase , Like this new year , whose motions never cease . For since the glorious course you ...
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... youth in exile and distress ! Who me , unfriended , brought'st by wondrous ways , The kingdom of my fathers to possess : 263 Be thou my judge , with what unwearied care I since have labour'd for my people's good ; To bind the bruises of ...
... youth in exile and distress ! Who me , unfriended , brought'st by wondrous ways , The kingdom of my fathers to possess : 263 Be thou my judge , with what unwearied care I since have labour'd for my people's good ; To bind the bruises of ...
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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.