The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumen 11A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... original member of that learned body . His great brother was Roger Lord Broghill , created upon the Restoration Earl of Orrery , to whom Dryden dedicated the " Rival Ladies . " See Vol . II . p . 113 . || William Harvey , the famous ...
... original member of that learned body . His great brother was Roger Lord Broghill , created upon the Restoration Earl of Orrery , to whom Dryden dedicated the " Rival Ladies . " See Vol . II . p . 113 . || William Harvey , the famous ...
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... original part , and was first published with them in 1700 . It supplies one instance among many , that the poet's lamp burn- ed clear to the close of life . It is said that his cousin acknowledged the honour done him by the poet , by a ...
... original part , and was first published with them in 1700 . It supplies one instance among many , that the poet's lamp burn- ed clear to the close of life . It is said that his cousin acknowledged the honour done him by the poet , by a ...
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... original I owe , Which when I miss , my own defects I show . Nor think the kindred muses thy disgrace ; A poet is not born in every race : Two of a house few ages can afford , One to perform , another to record.t * Sir Robert Bevile ...
... original I owe , Which when I miss , my own defects I show . Nor think the kindred muses thy disgrace ; A poet is not born in every race : Two of a house few ages can afford , One to perform , another to record.t * Sir Robert Bevile ...
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... original ; Ere canvas yet was strain'd , before the grace Of blended colours found their use and place , Or cypress tablets first received a face . By slow degrees the godlike art advanced ; As man grew polish'd , picture was enhanced ...
... original ; Ere canvas yet was strain'd , before the grace Of blended colours found their use and place , Or cypress tablets first received a face . By slow degrees the godlike art advanced ; As man grew polish'd , picture was enhanced ...
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... original , as a genuine portrait of Shakespeare . It is not , how- ever , an admitted point , that the Chandos picture is a forgery : the contrary has been keenly maintained ; and Mr Malone's opi- nion has given weight to those who have ...
... original , as a genuine portrait of Shakespeare . It is not , how- ever , an admitted point , that the Chandos picture is a forgery : the contrary has been keenly maintained ; and Mr Malone's opi- nion has given weight to those who have ...
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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.