The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1Harper, 1837 |
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... beauty . The youthful poet was attracted by these com- bined charms , and paid , though unsuccessfully , his addresses to her . She sent him a present of a silver inkstand , which he received from her fair hand , ' and which called ...
... beauty . The youthful poet was attracted by these com- bined charms , and paid , though unsuccessfully , his addresses to her . She sent him a present of a silver inkstand , which he received from her fair hand , ' and which called ...
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... beauty of expression . Davenant indeed , in all his poetry , throws out gleams of loftier and brighter creations , pathetic touches , sweet pensive meditations , imaginative and visionary fancies , and lines that run along the keen edge ...
... beauty of expression . Davenant indeed , in all his poetry , throws out gleams of loftier and brighter creations , pathetic touches , sweet pensive meditations , imaginative and visionary fancies , and lines that run along the keen edge ...
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... beauty of the heroine unrivalled . Thus Louis lived , and ruled a world of his own creation . This our stage adopted , and Charles approved . See some sensible observations on this subject by a clever entertaining writer , Mons . De ...
... beauty of the heroine unrivalled . Thus Louis lived , and ruled a world of his own creation . This our stage adopted , and Charles approved . See some sensible observations on this subject by a clever entertaining writer , Mons . De ...
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... beauty vanished beneath the coarser varnish of C. Marat . How foolish and ill placed is the duel between Fer- dinand and Hippolyto ! how unseasonable and out of character the quarrel between the two sisters ! how low and coarse the ...
... beauty vanished beneath the coarser varnish of C. Marat . How foolish and ill placed is the duel between Fer- dinand and Hippolyto ! how unseasonable and out of character the quarrel between the two sisters ! how low and coarse the ...
Page xvii
... beauty that ever sate on the British throne , and Dryden had so long been ac- customed to extravagant expressions , that he was not aware of their real force . + Mr. Dennis's Letters moral and critical , vol . i . , p . 75 , 8vo . 1721 ...
... beauty that ever sate on the British throne , and Dryden had so long been ac- customed to extravagant expressions , that he was not aware of their real force . + Mr. Dennis's Letters moral and critical , vol . i . , p . 75 , 8vo . 1721 ...
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Page 145 - O source of uncreated light, The Father's promised Paraclete ! Thrice holy fount, thrice holy fire, Our hearts with heavenly love inspire ; Come, and thy sacred unction bring To sanctify us, while we sing.
Page 39 - And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. 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. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest...
Page 43 - Some of their chiefs were princes of the land: In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; A man so various, that he seem'd 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 chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 114 - 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. Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, « And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty : ( Thoughtless as monarch oaks, that shade the plain, And, spread in solemn state, supinely reign. Heywood and Shirley were but types of thee, Thou last great prophet of tautology.
Page 144 - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Page 43 - 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 126 - 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 327 - The third way is that of imitation, where the translator (if now he has not lost that name) assumes the liberty, not only to vary from the words and sense, but to forsake them both as he sees occasion; and taking only some general hints from the original, to run division on the groundwork, as he pleases.
Page 129 - O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more? It might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
Page 40 - 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. In friendship false, implacable in hate; Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this the triple bond he broke; The pillars of the public safety shook; And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke: Then...