The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volumen 11A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... Wife of Bath , her Tale , The Character of a Good Parson , . 377 . 395 FABLES . TRANSLATIONS FROM BOCCACE . Sigismonda and Guiscardo , • Theodore and Honoria , · Cymon and Iphigenia , · 403 · 433 • 452 EPISTLES . VOL . XI . A EPISTLE ...
... Wife of Bath , her Tale , The Character of a Good Parson , . 377 . 395 FABLES . TRANSLATIONS FROM BOCCACE . Sigismonda and Guiscardo , • Theodore and Honoria , · Cymon and Iphigenia , · 403 · 433 • 452 EPISTLES . VOL . XI . A EPISTLE ...
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... wife of Roger Palmer , Esq . , was the first favourite , who after the Restoration of Charles II . enjoyed the power and consequence of a royal mistress . It is even said , that the king took her from her husband , upon the very day of ...
... wife of Roger Palmer , Esq . , was the first favourite , who after the Restoration of Charles II . enjoyed the power and consequence of a royal mistress . It is even said , that the king took her from her husband , upon the very day of ...
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... wife of James Duke of York , and afterwards his queen . She was at this time in all the splendour of beauty ; tall , and admirably formed in her person ; dignified and graceful in her deportment , her complexion very fair , and her hair ...
... wife of James Duke of York , and afterwards his queen . She was at this time in all the splendour of beauty ; tall , and admirably formed in her person ; dignified and graceful in her deportment , her complexion very fair , and her hair ...
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... wives and husbands show The vigour of a plenipo . Like mighty missioner you come Ad Partes Infidelium . A work of wonderous merit sure , So far to go , so much t ' endure ; * The map does not convey any such information . Ratisbon lies ...
... wives and husbands show The vigour of a plenipo . Like mighty missioner you come Ad Partes Infidelium . A work of wonderous merit sure , So far to go , so much t ' endure ; * The map does not convey any such information . Ratisbon lies ...
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... WIVES ' EXCUSE , ACTED IN 1692 . SOUTHERNE , Well known to the present age as a tragic writer , for his Isabella has been ranked among the first - rate parts of our inimitable Siddons , -was also distinguished by his contempora- ries as ...
... WIVES ' EXCUSE , ACTED IN 1692 . SOUTHERNE , Well known to the present age as a tragic writer , for his Isabella has been ranked among the first - rate parts of our inimitable Siddons , -was also distinguished by his contempora- ries as ...
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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.