The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2J. W. Parker and Son, 1854 - 299 pagina's |
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Pagina 12
... began . Next this , how wildly will ambition steer ! A vermin wriggling in the usurper's ear . Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold , He cast himself into the saint - like mould ; Groaned , sighed , and prayed , while godliness was ...
... began . Next this , how wildly will ambition steer ! A vermin wriggling in the usurper's ear . Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold , He cast himself into the saint - like mould ; Groaned , sighed , and prayed , while godliness was ...
Pagina 55
... began to inquire If they the Book , or that did them inspire ; And , making narrower search , they found , though late , That what they thought the priest's , was their estate ; Taught by the will produced , the written word , How long ...
... began to inquire If they the Book , or that did them inspire ; And , making narrower search , they found , though late , That what they thought the priest's , was their estate ; Taught by the will produced , the written word , How long ...
Pagina 68
... began , Equal almost to time in its extent , Through hazards numberless and great , Thou hast derived this mighty blessing down , And fixed the fairest gem that decks the imperial crown . Not faction , when it shook thy regal seat , Not ...
... began , Equal almost to time in its extent , Through hazards numberless and great , Thou hast derived this mighty blessing down , And fixed the fairest gem that decks the imperial crown . Not faction , when it shook thy regal seat , Not ...
Pagina 71
... . 16 View then a monarch ripened for a throne . Alcides thus his race began , O'er infancy he swiftly ran ; The future God at first was more than man : Dangers and toils , and Juno's hate , Even o'er 6-2 THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS . 71.
... . 16 View then a monarch ripened for a throne . Alcides thus his race began , O'er infancy he swiftly ran ; The future God at first was more than man : Dangers and toils , and Juno's hate , Even o'er 6-2 THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS . 71.
Pagina 92
... began , and here they all will end . What weight of ancient witness can prevail , If private reason hold the public scale ? But , gracious God , how well dost thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness ...
... began , and here they all will end . What weight of ancient witness can prevail , If private reason hold the public scale ? But , gracious God , how well dost thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness ...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden ... With the Life of the Author, Volume 2 John Dryden Volledige weergave - 1777 |
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Absalom and Achitophel ancient Anne Killigrew appear Arcite arms beauty began betwixt blessed blood Boccace Boccacio breast Canterbury Tales Chandos portrait charity Chaucer Church conscience crowd crown dare death defence divine doctrine doom Dryden Duchess of York Emily eyes fair faith fame fate fear Flecknoe foes force grace hand happy hast Heaven Hind honour hope JOHN DRYDEN judge kind king labouring laws lines lived look lord Mac Flecknoe mercy mighty mind mortal Muse nature never night numbers o'er Ovid pain Palamon panegyric Panther peace Petrarch Pirithous plain poem poet poetry praise prince queen race reason reign Religio Laici rest royal sacred satire Scripture sects sense Shadwell sight soul sovereign stood sure Thebes thee Theseus thine thou thought translated true truth Twas verse Virgil virtue words writ youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 206 - Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Pagina 26 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Pagina 207 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes...
Pagina 211 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd 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.
Pagina 90 - A MILK-WHITE Hind, immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns and in the forest ranged ; Without unspotted, innocent within, She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
Pagina 168 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell!
Pagina 92 - Follow'd false lights ; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am ; Be thine the glory and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task : my doubts are done ; What more could shock my faith than Three in One ? " In drawing Dryden's character, Johnson has given, though I suppose unintentionally, some touches of his own.
Pagina 31 - admiring throng loud acclamations make And omens of his future empire take. The sire then shook the honours of his head, And from his brows damps of oblivion shed Full on the filial...
Pagina 168 - What passion cannot Music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound: Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well.
Pagina 255 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.