The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fecret , as my chosen friend . Suppofe ( which yet I grant not ) thy defire A moment elder than my rival fire ; Can chance of feeing first thy title prove ? And know'st thou not , no law is made for love ; Law is to things which to free ...
... fecret , as my chosen friend . Suppofe ( which yet I grant not ) thy defire A moment elder than my rival fire ; Can chance of feeing first thy title prove ? And know'st thou not , no law is made for love ; Law is to things which to free ...
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... fecret thoughts explain'd ; If wealth , or honour , or a royal race , Or each , or all , may win a lady's grace , Then either of you knights may well deserve A princess born ; and such is she you serve : For Emily is sister to the crown ...
... fecret thoughts explain'd ; If wealth , or honour , or a royal race , Or each , or all , may win a lady's grace , Then either of you knights may well deserve A princess born ; and such is she you serve : For Emily is sister to the crown ...
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... fecret felon wrought , And treason labouring in the traitor's thought : And midwife Time the ripen'd plot to murder brought . } There the red anger dar'd the pallid fear ; Next stood hypocrify , with holy leer ; Soft smiling , and ...
... fecret felon wrought , And treason labouring in the traitor's thought : And midwife Time the ripen'd plot to murder brought . } There the red anger dar'd the pallid fear ; Next stood hypocrify , with holy leer ; Soft smiling , and ...
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... fecret ceremonies I conceal , Uncouth , perhaps unlawful , to reveal : But such they were as pagan use requir'd , Perform'd by women when the men retir'd , Whose eyes profane their chaste mysterious rites Might turn to scandal , or ...
... fecret ceremonies I conceal , Uncouth , perhaps unlawful , to reveal : But such they were as pagan use requir'd , Perform'd by women when the men retir'd , Whose eyes profane their chaste mysterious rites Might turn to scandal , or ...
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... fecret , liberal of his purse : A fool is nauseous , but a coward worse : No bragging coxcomb , yet no baffled knight . How dar'st thou talk of love , and dar'st not fight ? How dar'st thou tell thy dame thou art affear'd ? Hast thou no ...
... fecret , liberal of his purse : A fool is nauseous , but a coward worse : No bragging coxcomb , yet no baffled knight . How dar'st thou talk of love , and dar'st not fight ? How dar'st thou tell thy dame thou art affear'd ? Hast thou no ...
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Página 43 - I will only say that it was not for this noble Knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of Kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage...
Página 242 - He wander'd on, unknowing where he went Lost in the wood, and all on love intent : The Day already half his race had run, And summon'd him to due repast at noon, But Love could feel no hunger but lu's own.
Página 93 - Twas all it had, for windows there were none. The gate was adamant; eternal frame! Which, hew'd by Mars himself, from Indian quarries came, The labour of a god; and all along Tough iron plates were clench 'd to make it strong.
Página 298 - A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet, and then was Man design'd ; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast, For empire form'd, and fit to rule the rest...
Página 43 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Página 26 - One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way; but swept like a drag-net great and small.
Página 66 - Till each with mortal hate his rival view'd; Now friends no more, nor walking hand in hand; But when they met, they made a surly stand; And glared like angry lions as they pass'd, And wish'd that every look might be their last.
Página 239 - This noble youth to madness loved a dame Of high degree, Honoria was her name : Fair as the fairest, but of haughty mind, And fiercer than became so soft a kind ; Proud of her birth, (for equal she had none) The rest she scorn'd; but hated him alone.
Página 32 - May I have leave to do myself the justice (since my enemies will do me none, and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so much as to be a Christian, or a moral man), may I have leave, I say...
Página 132 - The attentive, audience, thus his will declared: The Cause and Spring of motion, from above, Hung down on earth the golden chain of Love: Great was the effect, and high was his intent, When peace among the jarring seeds he sent.