The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and TranslationsGeorge Routledge, 1867 - 445 pages |
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... least secure of being heard , whatever might be the final determination of the public . His first piece was a comedy called the Wild Gallant . He began with no happy auguries ; for his performance was so much disapproved , that he was ...
... least secure of being heard , whatever might be the final determination of the public . His first piece was a comedy called the Wild Gallant . He began with no happy auguries ; for his performance was so much disapproved , that he was ...
Page xii
... least happy ; and as his fancy was quick , so likewise were the products of it remote and new . He borrowed not of any other ; and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man . " The effect produced by the ...
... least happy ; and as his fancy was quick , so likewise were the products of it remote and new . He borrowed not of any other ; and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man . " The effect produced by the ...
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... least it will serve to keep him in from other extravagances ; and if he gains little honour by this work , yet he cannot lose so much by it as he has done by his last employment . " Having probably felt his own inferiority in ...
... least it will serve to keep him in from other extravagances ; and if he gains little honour by this work , yet he cannot lose so much by it as he has done by his last employment . " Having probably felt his own inferiority in ...
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... least notice to be taken of them . Blackmore and Milbourne are only distinguished from the crowd by being remembered to their infamy . " Dryden indeed discovered , in many of his writings , an affected and absurd malignity to priests ...
... least notice to be taken of them . Blackmore and Milbourne are only distinguished from the crowd by being remembered to their infamy . " Dryden indeed discovered , in many of his writings , an affected and absurd malignity to priests ...
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... least in the beginning of it , he was far from having it confined to himself . He put great confidence in the prognostications of judicial astrology . In the Appendix to the Life of Congreve is a narrative of some of his predictions ...
... least in the beginning of it , he was far from having it confined to himself . He put great confidence in the prognostications of judicial astrology . In the Appendix to the Life of Congreve is a narrative of some of his predictions ...
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Page 160 - Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods. — The princes applaud with a furious joy : And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Page 159 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne; His valiant peers were placed around...
Page 202 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own ; He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day : Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate are mine ; Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Page xliii - 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 160 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Page 156 - 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. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 213 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Page 50 - 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!
Page 160 - Soothed with the sound the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand, and check'd his pride.
Page 82 - Dm 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 ; I0 So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.