The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumen 11A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... betwixt the country and the court ; Nor gratify whate'er the great desire , Nor grudging give , what public needs require . Sir Samuel Garth , the ingenious author of the " Dispensary . " Although this celebrated wit and physician ...
... betwixt the country and the court ; Nor gratify whate'er the great desire , Nor grudging give , what public needs require . Sir Samuel Garth , the ingenious author of the " Dispensary . " Although this celebrated wit and physician ...
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... Betwixt the prince and parliament we stand , The barriers of the state on either hand ; May neither overflow , for then they drown the land . Our poet had originally accompanied his praises of the Bri- tish soldiers with some aspersions ...
... Betwixt the prince and parliament we stand , The barriers of the state on either hand ; May neither overflow , for then they drown the land . Our poet had originally accompanied his praises of the Bri- tish soldiers with some aspersions ...
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... betwixt ill health , some business , and many troubles , I was forced to defer them till this time . Ovid , going to his banishment , and writing from on shipboard to his friends , excused the faults of his poetry by his misfortunes ...
... betwixt ill health , some business , and many troubles , I was forced to defer them till this time . Ovid , going to his banishment , and writing from on shipboard to his friends , excused the faults of his poetry by his misfortunes ...
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... Betwixt the two extremes of hot and cold ; That pious heat may moderately prevail , And we be warm'd , but not be scorch'd with zeal . Business might shorten , not disturb , her prayer ; Heaven had the best , if not the greater share ...
... Betwixt the two extremes of hot and cold ; That pious heat may moderately prevail , And we be warm'd , but not be scorch'd with zeal . Business might shorten , not disturb , her prayer ; Heaven had the best , if not the greater share ...
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... betwixt them by the reader , without obtru- * I cannot find any such passages in Spenser as are here al- luded to . + Edward Fairfax , natural son of Sir Thomas Fairfax of Den- ton in Yorkshire , translated Tasso's celebrated poem ...
... betwixt them by the reader , without obtru- * I cannot find any such passages in Spenser as are here al- luded to . + Edward Fairfax , natural son of Sir Thomas Fairfax of Den- ton in Yorkshire , translated Tasso's celebrated poem ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 167 - 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.
Página 187 - War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Honour but an empty bubble, Never ending, still beginning ; Fighting still, and still destroying ; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee ! —The many rend the skies with loud applause ; So Love was crown'd, but Music won the cause.
Página 185 - 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...
Página 226 - Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks, and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns; 'for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
Página 187 - Now strike the golden lyre again ; A louder yet, and yet a louder strain. Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound . Has raised up his head ; As awaked from the dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Página 184 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Página 170 - To all the blest above : So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Página 160 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Página 219 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil.
Página 191 - But, oh, inflame and fire our hearts ! Our frailties help, our vice control, Submit the senses to the soul; And when rebellious they are grown, Then lay thy hand, and hold them down. 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.