The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3G. Bell & sons, 1891 |
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... stage . And when , with much ado , you get him there , Where he in all his glory should appear , Your poets make him such rare things to say , That he's more wit than any man i ' th ' play : But of so ill a mingle with the rest , As ...
... stage . And when , with much ado , you get him there , Where he in all his glory should appear , Your poets make him such rare things to say , That he's more wit than any man i ' th ' play : But of so ill a mingle with the rest , As ...
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... stage does human chance present to view , But ne'er before was seen so sadly true : You are chang'd too , and your pretence to see Is but a nobler name for charity . 10 15 20 Your own provisions furnish out our feasts , 50 THE POEMS.
... stage does human chance present to view , But ne'er before was seen so sadly true : You are chang'd too , and your pretence to see Is but a nobler name for charity . 10 15 20 Your own provisions furnish out our feasts , 50 THE POEMS.
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... stage , Which spar'd not temples in its furious rage . But as our new built city rises higher , So from old theatres may new aspire , Since fate contrives magnificence by fire . Our great metropolis does far surpass Whate'er is now ...
... stage , Which spar'd not temples in its furious rage . But as our new built city rises higher , So from old theatres may new aspire , Since fate contrives magnificence by fire . Our great metropolis does far surpass Whate'er is now ...
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... stage will scorn , we fear , And , for the homely room , disdain the cheer . Yet now cheap druggets to a mode are grown , And a plain suit , since we can make but one , 10 Is better than to be by tarnish'd gawdry known . * This prologue ...
... stage will scorn , we fear , And , for the homely room , disdain the cheer . Yet now cheap druggets to a mode are grown , And a plain suit , since we can make but one , 10 Is better than to be by tarnish'd gawdry known . * This prologue ...
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... stage . Great neighbours enviously promote excess , While they impose their splendour on the less . But only fools , and they of vast estate , The extremity of modes will imitate , The dangling knee - fringe , and the bib - cravat . Yet ...
... stage . Great neighbours enviously promote excess , While they impose their splendour on the less . But only fools , and they of vast estate , The extremity of modes will imitate , The dangling knee - fringe , and the bib - cravat . Yet ...
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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...