The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumen 11A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... happy in its geniture ; * For since ' tis born when Charles ascends the throne , It shares at once his fortune and its own . " * The author speaks the language of astrology , in which geni- ture signifies nativity . EPISTLE THE THIRD ...
... happy in its geniture ; * For since ' tis born when Charles ascends the throne , It shares at once his fortune and its own . " * The author speaks the language of astrology , in which geni- ture signifies nativity . EPISTLE THE THIRD ...
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... happy as their clime . Had we still paid that homage to a name , Which only God and nature justly claim , The western seas had been our utmost bound , Where poets still might dream the sun was drown d ; And all the stars , that shine in ...
... happy as their clime . Had we still paid that homage to a name , Which only God and nature justly claim , The western seas had been our utmost bound , Where poets still might dream the sun was drown d ; And all the stars , that shine in ...
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... happy shore , Discover wealth in lands unknown before ; And , what their art had labour'd long in vain , By their misfortunes happily obtain : So my much - envied muse , by storms long tost , Is thrown upon your hospitable coast , And ...
... happy shore , Discover wealth in lands unknown before ; And , what their art had labour'd long in vain , By their misfortunes happily obtain : So my much - envied muse , by storms long tost , Is thrown upon your hospitable coast , And ...
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... happy union of a body at ease , and a conscience void of offence . When this dramatist was sixty- five , his last play , called " Money the Mistress , " was acted , with a prologue by Welsted , containing the following beautiful lines ...
... happy union of a body at ease , and a conscience void of offence . When this dramatist was sixty- five , his last play , called " Money the Mistress , " was acted , with a prologue by Welsted , containing the following beautiful lines ...
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... happy wit , Was framed and finish'd at a lucky hit ; The pride of nature , and the shame of schools , Born to create , and not to learn from rules , Must please no more . His bastards now deride Their father's nakedness , they ought to ...
... happy wit , Was framed and finish'd at a lucky hit ; The pride of nature , and the shame of schools , Born to create , and not to learn from rules , Must please no more . His bastards now deride Their father's nakedness , they ought to ...
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ANNE KILLIGREW Arcite arms beauty began behold betwixt blood Boccacio breast Canterbury Tales Chanticleer charms Chaucer coursers court crown'd Cymon dame daughter death design'd divine dream Dryden Duchess of Ormond Duke Emily EPISTLE eyes fair fame fate father fear fight fire fortune gave grace grief Guiscard hand happy hast heart heaven honour kind king knew knight KNIGHT'S TALE lady laurel light live look'd lord lover Lysimachus maid mind mortal muse never noble numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon panegyric pass'd play pleased pleasure poem poet poetry praise prince pursue queen race rest seem'd sight SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE Sir Robert Howard song soul stood sung sweet tale Tancred tears Thebes thee Theseus thine thou thought took translated turn'd Twas verses virtue wife Wife of Bath words youth
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Página 187 - Those are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain, 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.
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 189 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother- wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down.
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 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 215 - I wol yow telle a tale which that I Lerned at Padowe of a worthy clerk, As preved by his wordes and his werk. He is now deed and nayled in his cheste, I prey to god so yeve his soule reste.
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 168 - Excites us to arms With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thundering drum Cries, hark ! the foes come ; Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat.
Página 170 - GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise 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 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.