The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 10A. Constable & Company, 1821 - English literature |
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Page 48
... gave , To keep it in her power to damn and save . Scripture was scarce , and , as the market went , Poor laymen took salvation on content , As needy men take money , good or bad . God's word they had not , but the priest's they had ...
... gave , To keep it in her power to damn and save . Scripture was scarce , and , as the market went , Poor laymen took salvation on content , As needy men take money , good or bad . God's word they had not , but the priest's they had ...
Page 49
... gave the doctoral degree , And every member of a company Was of his trade and of the Bible free . 1 Plain truths enough for needful use they found ; But men would still be itching to expound ; Each was ambitious of the obscurest place ...
... gave the doctoral degree , And every member of a company Was of his trade and of the Bible free . 1 Plain truths enough for needful use they found ; But men would still be itching to expound ; Each was ambitious of the obscurest place ...
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... gave indiscriminately the same broad features to all their subjects , and thereby very often converted their intended panegyric into satire , not the less bitter because undesigned . Dryden , for instance , in this whole poem , has ...
... gave indiscriminately the same broad features to all their subjects , and thereby very often converted their intended panegyric into satire , not the less bitter because undesigned . Dryden , for instance , in this whole poem , has ...
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... gave no countenance to this rumour , which was circulated by a Catholic . And , as the symptoms of the king's disorder are decidedly apoplectic , the report may be added to those with which history abounds , and which are raised and ...
... gave no countenance to this rumour , which was circulated by a Catholic . And , as the symptoms of the king's disorder are decidedly apoplectic , the report may be added to those with which history abounds , and which are raised and ...
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... gave the royal cause a fatal overthrow ! Scandal to all religions , new and old ; Scandal to them , where pardon's bought and sold , And mortgaged happiness redeem'd for gold . Tell me , for ' tis a truth you must allow , Who ever ...
... gave the royal cause a fatal overthrow ! Scandal to all religions , new and old ; Scandal to them , where pardon's bought and sold , And mortgaged happiness redeem'd for gold . Tell me , for ' tis a truth you must allow , Who ever ...
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Page 151 - The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.
Page 418 - Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, 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.
Page 145 - Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Page 151 - Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. These out of mere instinct, they knew not why, Adored their fathers...
Page 238 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 421 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play : This is that boasted bias of thy mind, By which, one way, to dulness 'tis inclined: Which makes thy writings lean on one side still, And, in all changes, that way bends thy will.
Page 41 - Whence but from Heaven could men, unskilled in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths? or how or why Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie? Unasked their pains, ungrateful their advice, Starving their gain and martyrdom their price.
Page 15 - WHOSOEVER will be saved : before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled : without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 421 - Of his dominion may no end be known, And greater than his father's be his throne ; Beyond Love's Kingdom let him stretch his pen !' — He paused, and all the people cried, ' Amen,' Then thus continued he : ' My son, advance Still in new impudence, new ignorance.
Page 37 - 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 ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.