The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Volym 13William Miller, 1808 |
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... Roman . There is more of salt in all your verses , than I have seen in any of the mo- derns , or even of the ancients ; but you have been sparing of the gall , by which means you have plea- sed all readers , and offended none . Donne ...
... Roman . There is more of salt in all your verses , than I have seen in any of the mo- derns , or even of the ancients ; but you have been sparing of the gall , by which means you have plea- sed all readers , and offended none . Donne ...
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... Roman majesty , and length of time had not add- ed a reverence to the works of Horace . For good sense is the same in all or most ages ; and course of time rather improves nature , than impairs her . What has been , may be again ...
... Roman majesty , and length of time had not add- ed a reverence to the works of Horace . For good sense is the same in all or most ages ; and course of time rather improves nature , than impairs her . What has been , may be again ...
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... Romans ; and only Mr Waller among the English . As for Mr Milton , whom we all admire with so much justice , his subject is not that of an heroic poem , properly so called . His design is the losing of our happiness ; his event is not ...
... Romans ; and only Mr Waller among the English . As for Mr Milton , whom we all admire with so much justice , his subject is not that of an heroic poem , properly so called . His design is the losing of our happiness ; his event is not ...
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... Roman . Their gods did not only interest them- selves in the event of wars , ( which is the effect of a superior providence , ) but also espoused the several parties , in a visible corporeal descent , managed their intrigues , and ...
... Roman . Their gods did not only interest them- selves in the event of wars , ( which is the effect of a superior providence , ) but also espoused the several parties , in a visible corporeal descent , managed their intrigues , and ...
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... Romans call , cana dubia ; where there is such plenty , yet withal so much diversity , and so good order , that the choice is difficult be- twixt one excellency and another ; and yet the con- clusion , by a due climax , is evermore the ...
... Romans call , cana dubia ; where there is such plenty , yet withal so much diversity , and so good order , that the choice is difficult be- twixt one excellency and another ; and yet the con- clusion , by a due climax , is evermore the ...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volym 13 John Dryden Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1808 |
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Sida 178 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Sida 27 - Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, 19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong.
Sida 308 - Tell good Barzillai thou canst sing no more, And tell thy soul she should have fled before. Or fled she with his life, and left this verse To hang on her departed patron's hearse?
Sida 26 - And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.
Sida 27 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. 21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Sida 26 - His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Sida 399 - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.
Sida 17 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Sida 408 - The pines of Maenalus, the vocal grove, Are ever full of verse, and full of love ; They hear the hinds, they hear their god complain, Who suffered not the reeds to rise in vain.
Sida 222 - When wilt thou, mighty Jove, My wealthy uncle from this world remove...