Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" But he has now another taste of wit; And, to confess a truth, (though out of time), Grows weary of his long-loved mistress rhyme. Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, And nature flies him like enchanted ground... "
The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 213
by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808
Full view - About this book

Titus and Berenice: A Tragedy, Acted at the Duke's Theatre. With a ..., Volume 1

Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton - 1813 - 324 pages
...resemblance to that of nature, and wberc the characters and sentiments are equally hypothetical !— Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, And nature flies him like enchanted ground. Prol, to " Atirengzel/e.'' With this declaration of the impotence of rhyme, Dryden (once it's strenuous...
Full view - About this book

The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Part 1

John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...dramatick compositions, that it is surprising he should not have been struck by it at aa earlier period : " Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, " And nature flies him like enchanted ground." The interest which Charles the Second took in the exhibitions of the stage is well known, and is strongly...
Full view - About this book

The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Issue 1

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 608 pages
...dramatick compositions, that it is surprising he should not have been struck by it at An earlier period : " Passion's too fierce to be In fetters bound, " And nature flies him like enchanted ground." The interest which Charles the Second took in the exhibitions of the stage is well known, and is strongly...
Full view - About this book

The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First ...

John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...compositions, that it is surprising hit should not have been struck by it at an earlier period : " Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, " And nature flies him like enchanted ground." The interest which Charles the Second took in the exhibitions of the stage is well known, and is strongly...
Full view - About this book

The Works of John Dryden,: Religio laici, or a Layman's Faith, an epistle ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 472 pages
...crimes is penitence. * The author applies the same simile to the use of rhyme ia tragedy ; Passion';, too fierce to be in fetters bound, And nature flies him like enchanted gionnd. Yet since the effects of providence, we find, Are variously dispensed to human kind ; That...
Full view - About this book

The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 5

John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 436 pages
...upon the wane : 1 'ml he has now another taste of wit ; And, to confess a truth, though out of time, Grows weary of his long-loved mistress, Rhyme. Passion's too fierce to be in letters bound, And nature flies him, like enchanted ground. What verse can do, he has performed in...
Full view - About this book

Prologues and Epilogues: Celebrated for Their Poetical Merit ...

Prologues - Prologues and epilogues - 1810 - 280 pages
...And to confefs a truth, (though out of time) Grows weary of his long-lov'd miftrefs, Rhime. Paffion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, And Nature flies him like enchanted ground. What verfe can do he has perform'd in this, Which he prefumes the moft correct of-his. But fpite of all...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 2

John Dryden - 1811 - 610 pages
...to confefs a truth, though out of time, Grows weary of his long-lov'd miftrefs, 111 nine. Paffion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, And nature flies him like enchanted ground : 10 "What verfe can do, he has performed in this, Which he prefumes the jnoft correct of his ; But...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 2

John Dryden - 1811 - 616 pages
...And, to confefs a truth, though out of time, Grows weary of his long-lov'd miftrefs, Rhime. Paffion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, , And nature flies him like enchanted ground : 10 What verfe can do, he has performed in this, Which he prefumes the moft correct of his ; But fpite...
Full view - About this book

The works of Thomas Otway, with notes and a life of the author by ..., Volume 1

Thomas Otway - 1813 - 342 pages
...resemblance to that of nature, and where the characters and sentiments are equally hypothetical*— Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound, And nature flies him like enchanted ground. Prol. to " Aurengzebe." With this declaration of the impotence of rhyme, Dryden (once it's strenuous...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF