The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2J. W. Parker and Son, 1854 - 299 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... judges in Israel ? Or how is it consistent with your zeal for the public welfare , to promote sedition ? Does your definition of loyal , which is to serve the king according to the laws , allow you the licence of traducing the executive ...
... judges in Israel ? Or how is it consistent with your zeal for the public welfare , to promote sedition ? Does your definition of loyal , which is to serve the king according to the laws , allow you the licence of traducing the executive ...
Pagina 25
... judge how far satire is to be trusted for an honest exposition of character . Dryden here flatters Shadwell upon the most vulnerable point of his vanity that assumption of a resemblance to Ben Jonson , which , of all things in the world ...
... judge how far satire is to be trusted for an honest exposition of character . Dryden here flatters Shadwell upon the most vulnerable point of his vanity that assumption of a resemblance to Ben Jonson , which , of all things in the world ...
Pagina 35
... judges of sacred things ; but in the due sense of my own weakness and want of learning I plead not this ; I pretend not to make myself a judge of faith in others , but only to make a confession of my own . I lay no unhallowed hand upon ...
... judges of sacred things ; but in the due sense of my own weakness and want of learning I plead not this ; I pretend not to make myself a judge of faith in others , but only to make a confession of my own . I lay no unhallowed hand upon ...
Pagina 42
... judge the world , and that they were his assisting prophets , one styling himself the prophet of mercy , the other of judgment . Hacket was tried , convicted , and hanged ; persisting with his last breath in the most horrid blas ...
... judge the world , and that they were his assisting prophets , one styling himself the prophet of mercy , the other of judgment . Hacket was tried , convicted , and hanged ; persisting with his last breath in the most horrid blas ...
Pagina 54
... judge the sense . But first they would assume , with wondrous art , Themselves to be the whole , who are but part Of that vast frame , the Church ; yet grant they were The handers down , can they from thence infer A right to interpret ...
... judge the sense . But first they would assume , with wondrous art , Themselves to be the whole , who are but part Of that vast frame , the Church ; yet grant they were The handers down , can they from thence infer A right to interpret ...
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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
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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.