The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3G. Bell & sons, 1891 |
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John Dryden. EPILOGUE TO ALL FOR LOVE . POETS , like disputants , when reasons fail , Have one sure refuge left - and that's to rail . Fop , coxcomb , fool , are thunder'd through the pit ; And this is all their equipage of wit . We ...
John Dryden. EPILOGUE TO ALL FOR LOVE . POETS , like disputants , when reasons fail , Have one sure refuge left - and that's to rail . Fop , coxcomb , fool , are thunder'd through the pit ; And this is all their equipage of wit . We ...
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... Reasons as weak as theirs , perhaps , I bring ; But I could bribe you with as good a thing . I heard him make advances of good nature ; 25 30 That he , for once , would sheath his cutting satire . Sign but his peace , he vows he'll ne ...
... Reasons as weak as theirs , perhaps , I bring ; But I could bribe you with as good a thing . I heard him make advances of good nature ; 25 30 That he , for once , would sheath his cutting satire . Sign but his peace , he vows he'll ne ...
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... reason is sufficiently convinced both of their truth and usefulness ; which , in other words , is to confess no less a vanity , than to pretend that I have at least in some places made examples to his rules . Yet , withal , I must ...
... reason is sufficiently convinced both of their truth and usefulness ; which , in other words , is to confess no less a vanity , than to pretend that I have at least in some places made examples to his rules . Yet , withal , I must ...
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... reason he is so very figurative , that he requires ( I may almost say ) a grammar apart to construe him . His verse is every where sounding the very thing in your ears , whose sense it bears yet the numbers are perpetually varied , to ...
... reason he is so very figurative , that he requires ( I may almost say ) a grammar apart to construe him . His verse is every where sounding the very thing in your ears , whose sense it bears yet the numbers are perpetually varied , to ...
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... reason of its monosyllables , is far the most com- pendious of them . Virgil is much the closest of any Roman poet , and the Latin hexameter has more feet than the English heroic . Besides all this , an author has the choice of his own ...
... reason of its monosyllables , is far the most com- pendious of them . Virgil is much the closest of any Roman poet , and the Latin hexameter has more feet than the English heroic . Besides all this , an author has the choice of his own ...
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ALBION AND ALBANIUS Arcite arms beauty behold betwixt blood Boccace breast call'd chang'd Chanticleer Chaucer conquer'd Creon dare dead death delight dream Dryden e'en e'er Emily English EPILOGUE eyes fair fame fate fear fight fire fool forc'd fortune grace happy haste heart heaven honour hope humour JOHN DRYDEN judge kind king knight KNIGHT'S TALE live look'd lord lovers Lucretius Mars mighty mind monarch mortal mourn muse ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once oppress'd Ovid Oxford bells pain Palamon Pirithous pity plac'd plain play pleas'd pleasure poet pointed lance prince PROLOGUE queen rais'd rest rhyme sacred scarce sense slain song soul strife sweet tale Thebes thee Theocritus Theseus thou thought translated true turn'd Twas UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Venus verse Virgil whate'er Whig words wretched writ write youth
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Page 15 - 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 12 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Page 16 - Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before — Let old Timotheus yield the prize Or both divide the crown; He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an...
Page 18 - Chase from our minds the infernal foe, And peace, the fruit of love, bestow ; And, lest our feet should step astray, Protect and guide us in the way. Make us eternal truths receive, And practise all that we believe : Give us thyself, that we may see The Father, and the Son, by thee. Immortal honor, endless fame, Attend the...
Page 2 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell!
Page 13 - Revolving in his alter'd soul The various turns of Chance below; And now and then a sigh he stole And tears began to flow.
Page 2 - 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 3 - But Oh! what art can teach, What human voice can reach The sacred organ's praise? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above.
Page 14 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
Page 175 - Wife of Bath. 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...