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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... king of poets , what an extent of power you have , and how lawfully you may exercise it , over the petulant scribblers of this age . As lord chamberlain , I know , you are absolute by your office , in all that belongs to the decency and ...
... king of poets , what an extent of power you have , and how lawfully you may exercise it , over the petulant scribblers of this age . As lord chamberlain , I know , you are absolute by your office , in all that belongs to the decency and ...
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... king to men of learning and merit ; a praise so just , that even we , who are his enemies , cannot refuse it to him . Now if it may be permitted me to go back again to the consideration of epic poetry , I have confessed , that no man ...
... king to men of learning and merit ; a praise so just , that even we , who are his enemies , cannot refuse it to him . Now if it may be permitted me to go back again to the consideration of epic poetry , I have confessed , that no man ...
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... king of Jerusalem fifty sons , only because Homer had bestowed the like number on king Priam ; he kills the youngest in the same manner , and has provided his hero with a Patro- clus , under another name , only to bring him back to the ...
... king of Jerusalem fifty sons , only because Homer had bestowed the like number on king Priam ; he kills the youngest in the same manner , and has provided his hero with a Patro- clus , under another name , only to bring him back to the ...
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... king , are prudence , counsel , active fortitude , coercive power , awful command , and the exercise of magnanimity , as well as justice . So that this objection hinders not , but that an epic poem , or the heroic action of some great ...
... king , are prudence , counsel , active fortitude , coercive power , awful command , and the exercise of magnanimity , as well as justice . So that this objection hinders not , but that an epic poem , or the heroic action of some great ...
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... kings of Persia , Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days for yet the vision is for many days . And when he had spoken such words unto me , I set my face toward the ground , and I became ...
... kings of Persia , Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days for yet the vision is for many days . And when he had spoken such words unto me , I set my face toward the ground , and I became ...
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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...