The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumen 11A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... is therefore very probable , that this Epistle should have stood earlier in the arrangement ; but , having no positive evidence , the Editor has not disturbed the former order . EPISTLE THE ELEVENTH . } THE Grecian wits , who 54 EPISTLES .
... is therefore very probable , that this Epistle should have stood earlier in the arrangement ; but , having no positive evidence , the Editor has not disturbed the former order . EPISTLE THE ELEVENTH . } THE Grecian wits , who 54 EPISTLES .
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... stood . Like Janus , he the stubborn soil manured , With rules of husbandry the rankness cured ; Tamed us to manners when the stage was rude , And boisterous English wit with art endued . Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what ...
... stood . Like Janus , he the stubborn soil manured , With rules of husbandry the rankness cured ; Tamed us to manners when the stage was rude , And boisterous English wit with art endued . Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what ...
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... stood perhaps , but each alone : Two wrestlers help to pull each other down . Not that my verse would blemish all the fair ; But yet if some be bad , ' tis wisdom to beware , And better shun the bait , than struggle in the snare . Thus ...
... stood perhaps , but each alone : Two wrestlers help to pull each other down . Not that my verse would blemish all the fair ; But yet if some be bad , ' tis wisdom to beware , And better shun the bait , than struggle in the snare . Thus ...
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... stood firm . But as Dundee has- tened towards them , and extended his arm as if urging the as- sault , a shot penetrated his armour beneath his arm - pit , and he dropt from his horse . He lived but a very short time , and died in the ...
... stood firm . But as Dundee has- tened towards them , and extended his arm as if urging the as- sault , a shot penetrated his armour beneath his arm - pit , and he dropt from his horse . He lived but a very short time , and died in the ...
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... stood prepared to see the manna fall . Such multitudes she fed , she clothed , she nurst , That she herself might fear her wanting first . Of her five talents , other five she made ; Heaven , that had largely given , was largely paid ...
... stood prepared to see the manna fall . Such multitudes she fed , she clothed , she nurst , That she herself might fear her wanting first . Of her five talents , other five she made ; Heaven , that had largely given , was largely paid ...
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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.