The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumen 11A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... light , you saw great Charles his morning break : † So skilful seamen ken the land from far , Which shews like mists to the dull passenger . To Charles your muse first pays her duteous love , As still the ancients did begin from Jove ...
... light , you saw great Charles his morning break : † So skilful seamen ken the land from far , Which shews like mists to the dull passenger . To Charles your muse first pays her duteous love , As still the ancients did begin from Jove ...
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... light . So truth , while only one supplied the state , Grew scarce , and dear , and yet sophisticate . Still it was bought , like emp'ric wares , or charms , Hard words seal'd up with Aristotle's arms . Columbus was the first that shook ...
... light . So truth , while only one supplied the state , Grew scarce , and dear , and yet sophisticate . Still it was bought , like emp'ric wares , or charms , Hard words seal'd up with Aristotle's arms . Columbus was the first that shook ...
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... light , And is , like that , unspent too in its flight . Whatever truths have been , by art or chance , Redeem'd from error , or from ignorance , Thin in their authors , like rich veins of ore , Your works unite , and still discover ...
... light , And is , like that , unspent too in its flight . Whatever truths have been , by art or chance , Redeem'd from error , or from ignorance , Thin in their authors , like rich veins of ore , Your works unite , and still discover ...
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... light and gallant effusion , than its importance deserved . * The verses abound with spright- ly and ingenious turns ; and the conceits , which were the taste of the age , shew to some advantage on such an occasion . There is , however ...
... light and gallant effusion , than its importance deserved . * The verses abound with spright- ly and ingenious turns ; and the conceits , which were the taste of the age , shew to some advantage on such an occasion . There is , however ...
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... light ; Like them are good , but from a nobler cause , From your own knowledge , not from nature's laws . Your power you never use , but for defence , To guard your own , or others ' innocence : Your foes are such , as they , not you ...
... light ; Like them are good , but from a nobler cause , From your own knowledge , not from nature's laws . Your power you never use , but for defence , To guard your own , or others ' innocence : Your foes are such , as they , not you ...
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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.