The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... learned mufe , The nobleft feeds of foreign wit to choose : Feasting our sense so many various ways , Say , is't thy bounty , or thy thirft of praife ? That , by comparing others , all might see , Who moft excel , are yet excell'd by ...
... learned mufe , The nobleft feeds of foreign wit to choose : Feasting our sense so many various ways , Say , is't thy bounty , or thy thirft of praife ? That , by comparing others , all might see , Who moft excel , are yet excell'd by ...
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... learned , only to depart ? If merit be difeafe ; if virtue death ; To be good , not to be ; who'd then bequeath Himself to difcipline ? who'd not esteem Labour a crime ? study self - murther deem ? Our noble youth now have pretence to ...
... learned , only to depart ? If merit be difeafe ; if virtue death ; To be good , not to be ; who'd then bequeath Himself to difcipline ? who'd not esteem Labour a crime ? study self - murther deem ? Our noble youth now have pretence to ...
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... learned Ptolemy , and tryal make , If thou this hero's altitude canft take : But that tranfcends thy skill ; thrice happy all , Could we but prove thus aftronomical . Liv'd Tycho now , ftruck with this ray which shone More bright i'th ...
... learned Ptolemy , and tryal make , If thou this hero's altitude canft take : But that tranfcends thy skill ; thrice happy all , Could we but prove thus aftronomical . Liv'd Tycho now , ftruck with this ray which shone More bright i'th ...
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... learned languages have certainly a great advantage of us , in not being tied to the flavery of any rhyme ; and were lefs constrained in the quantity of every fyllable , which they might vary with fpondees or dactyls , befides fo many ...
... learned languages have certainly a great advantage of us , in not being tied to the flavery of any rhyme ; and were lefs constrained in the quantity of every fyllable , which they might vary with fpondees or dactyls , befides fo many ...
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... their enemies , In this conclude them honeft men and wife : For ' twas their duty , all the learned think , T'espouse his caufe , by whom they eat and drink . From From hence began that plot , the nation's curse , 128 DRYDEN'S POEMS .
... their enemies , In this conclude them honeft men and wife : For ' twas their duty , all the learned think , T'espouse his caufe , by whom they eat and drink . From From hence began that plot , the nation's curse , 128 DRYDEN'S POEMS .
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ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL Achitophel againſt becauſe beft beſt bleffing bleft bold breaſt caft caufe cauſe church courſe crimes David's defign defire divine eaſe Engliſh Ev'n eyes facred fafe faid falfe fame fate fatire fcripture fear fecure feem fenfe fhall fhew fhore fhould fight fince fing firft firſt foes fome forc'd foul ftill ftrong fubjects fuch fufferings fure heaven hero himſelf Ifrael intereft itſelf juft juſt king laft laſt laws lefs loft mind moft monarch moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt myſelf never noble numbers o'er Ovid paffions peace pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poets praiſe prince purſue rage raiſe reafon reft reign rhyme rife royal ſee ſenſe ſhall ſhow ſkill Socinian ſpeak ſtage ſtand ſtate ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought try'd twas uſe verfe verſe vex'd virtue Whofe Whoſe write
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Page 143 - 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 131 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Page 127 - An idol monarch, which their hands had made ; Thought they might ruin him they could create, Or melt him to that golden calf, a state.
Page 256 - Which each presum'd he best could understand, The common rule was made the common prey ; And at the mercy of the rabble lay. The tender page with...
Page 178 - Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads thy rhymes ? But of King David's foes, be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom ; And, for my foes, may this their blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee...
Page 131 - Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful harp had strung And Heaven had wanted one immortal song.
Page 7 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found.
Page 28 - Behold th' approaching cliffs of Albion : It is no longer motion cheats your view, As you meet it, the land approacheth you. The land returns, and, in the white it wears, The marks of penitence and sorrow bears.
Page 152 - If ancient fabrics nod and threat to fall, To patch the flaws and buttress up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty : but here fix the mark ; For all beyond it is to touch our ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels who base ends pursue, At once divine and human laws control, And mend the parts by ruin of the whole.
Page 127 - 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.