Bell's Edition, Volumes 41-42J. Bell, 1777 - English poetry |
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... English writers from the censure of those who un- justly prefer the French to them . Langbaine has injuriously treated Mr. Dryden on account of his dra- matic performances , and charged him as a licentious plagiary . The truth is , our ...
... English writers from the censure of those who un- justly prefer the French to them . Langbaine has injuriously treated Mr. Dryden on account of his dra- matic performances , and charged him as a licentious plagiary . The truth is , our ...
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... English verse , by several hands , two of which were translated by Mr.Dryden , who also wrote the preface . In the year following our Author published Absalom and Achithophel . It was first printed without his name , and is a severe ...
... English verse , by several hands , two of which were translated by Mr.Dryden , who also wrote the preface . In the year following our Author published Absalom and Achithophel . It was first printed without his name , and is a severe ...
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... - tion of Virgil's works came out . This translation has passed through many editions , and , of all the attempts which have been made to render Virgil into English , the critics , I think , have allowed that Dryden 18 LIFE OF DRYDEN .
... - tion of Virgil's works came out . This translation has passed through many editions , and , of all the attempts which have been made to render Virgil into English , the critics , I think , have allowed that Dryden 18 LIFE OF DRYDEN .
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... ENGLISH POETS . BUT see where artful Dryden next appears , Grown old in rhyme , but charming ev'n in years , Great Dryden next ! whose tuneful Muse affords The sweetest numbers , and the fittest words . Whether in comic sounds , or ...
... ENGLISH POETS . BUT see where artful Dryden next appears , Grown old in rhyme , but charming ev'n in years , Great Dryden next ! whose tuneful Muse affords The sweetest numbers , and the fittest words . Whether in comic sounds , or ...
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... English to the neighb'ring shore , 215 To fetch that prize by which Batavia made So rich amends for our impoverish'd trade . Oh had you seen from Scheveline's barren shore , ( Crowded with troops , and barren now no more ) Afflicted ...
... English to the neighb'ring shore , 215 To fetch that prize by which Batavia made So rich amends for our impoverish'd trade . Oh had you seen from Scheveline's barren shore , ( Crowded with troops , and barren now no more ) Afflicted ...
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Absalom Achithophel arms arts Behold Belgian blessings blest blood bold book of Kings brave breast cause CHRO church crimes crowd crown dare David's Deist design'd divine Dryden e'en English ev'ry Exeter Exchange eyes faction faith False heroes fame fate father fear fight fire flames fleet foes forc'd gen'ral giv'n grace hand happy haste Heav'n heav'nly Hebron Hind honour int'rest Isr'el Jebusites Jews JOHN DRYDEN king land laws Lord mercy mighty monarch Muse Nature's ne'er never num'rous numbers o'er once Ovid Panther peace plain plot Poem poet pow'r praise pray'r prey pride prince promis'd rage rais'd rebel reign rest rise royal ruin sacred sanhedrims satire Scripture second Punic war sects seem'd shews shore soul sov'reign suff'rings supply'd sway thee thou thought thro throne Timotheus toil triumph true truth try'd twas verse vex'd virtue wind
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Page 109 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Page 105 - 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 106 - 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 102 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes ! Sound the trumpets, beat the...
Page 105 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Page 28 - Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! While at each change the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And the world's victor stood subdued by sound ! The power of music all our hearts allow, And what Timotheus was, is DRYDEN now.
Page 171 - That every man, with him, was god or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late: He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Page 107 - Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering ray 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.
Page 170 - In the first rank of these did Zimri ' stand, A man so various that he seemed 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...
Page 172 - Thus, heaping wealth, by the most ready way Among the Jews, which was to cheat and pray; The city, to reward his pious hate Against his master, chose him magistrate: His hand a vare of justice did uphold; His neck was loaded with a chain of gold.