The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1Harper, 1837 |
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Page xix
... heart he must have despised , in order to dis- tract the public opinion from Dryden's merits , and , at the least , to divide the fickle judgment of the town . In 1671 , Settle's play of Cam- byses , King of Persia , was acted for six ...
... heart he must have despised , in order to dis- tract the public opinion from Dryden's merits , and , at the least , to divide the fickle judgment of the town . In 1671 , Settle's play of Cam- byses , King of Persia , was acted for six ...
Page xxiii
... heart filled with vague anxieties , and wild per- plexities of wo ; who marked , as in Timon and Macbeth , the passions which nature pours into the general heart of man ; and then brought them forth distinct with all the traces of ...
... heart filled with vague anxieties , and wild per- plexities of wo ; who marked , as in Timon and Macbeth , the passions which nature pours into the general heart of man ; and then brought them forth distinct with all the traces of ...
Page xxxii
... heart , and that however the formert might now find himself This Poem is said to have been written at Rushton , near Huntingdon . There was an embow- ered walk , called Dryden's walk ; an urn was placed there about the middle of the ...
... heart , and that however the formert might now find himself This Poem is said to have been written at Rushton , near Huntingdon . There was an embow- ered walk , called Dryden's walk ; an urn was placed there about the middle of the ...
Page xxxv
... heart , when agitated by darker and more stubborn passions , Don Sebastian offers a far superior source of gratification . Scott's of Dryden's dramatic works , in which he had centred in the effort the powers of his mighty genius , and ...
... heart , when agitated by darker and more stubborn passions , Don Sebastian offers a far superior source of gratification . Scott's of Dryden's dramatic works , in which he had centred in the effort the powers of his mighty genius , and ...
Page xlv
... heart of him for ever , I invite him here before the courteous reader , ( provided he will before band promise not to debauch my wife , ) when he shall have sugar to his roast beef , and vinegar to his butter ; and lastly , to make him ...
... heart of him for ever , I invite him here before the courteous reader , ( provided he will before band promise not to debauch my wife , ) when he shall have sugar to his roast beef , and vinegar to his butter ; and lastly , to make him ...
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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...