The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumen 11A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... seems usually to have given to those copies of verses , which he sent to his friends upon their publications , and which , accord- ing to the custom of the time , were prefixed to the works to which they related . They form the second ...
... seems usually to have given to those copies of verses , which he sent to his friends upon their publications , and which , accord- ing to the custom of the time , were prefixed to the works to which they related . They form the second ...
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... seems like- ly to have been a Saxon erection , during their days of paganism ; for it is neither mentioned by Cæsar nor Tacitus , who were both likely to have noticed a structure of so remarkable an appearance . Leaving the book to ...
... seems like- ly to have been a Saxon erection , during their days of paganism ; for it is neither mentioned by Cæsar nor Tacitus , who were both likely to have noticed a structure of so remarkable an appearance . Leaving the book to ...
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... seem , that , in 1662-3 , while Lady Castlemain was in the very height of her reign , she extended her patronage to our au- thor , upon his commencing his dramatic career . In the preface to his first play , " The Wild Gallant , " he ...
... seem , that , in 1662-3 , while Lady Castlemain was in the very height of her reign , she extended her patronage to our au- thor , upon his commencing his dramatic career . In the preface to his first play , " The Wild Gallant , " he ...
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... your inheritance : So great a soul , such sweetness join'd in one , Could only spring from noble Grandison . * This seems to be the passage sneered at in the " Session of the Poets . " You , like the stars , not by reflection bright [ 20 ]
... your inheritance : So great a soul , such sweetness join'd in one , Could only spring from noble Grandison . * This seems to be the passage sneered at in the " Session of the Poets . " You , like the stars , not by reflection bright [ 20 ]
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... seems to be the gallant Sir Edward Spragge , noted for his gallantry in the two Dutch wars , and finally killed in the great battle of 11th August , 1672. In 1671 , he was sent to the Mediterranean with a squadron , to chas- tise the ...
... seems to be the gallant Sir Edward Spragge , noted for his gallantry in the two Dutch wars , and finally killed in the great battle of 11th August , 1672. In 1671 , he was sent to the Mediterranean with a squadron , to chas- tise the ...
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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.