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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... wishes and desires of all good men , which have attended your lordship from your first appear- ance in the world , are at length accomplished , from your obtaining those honours and dignities which you have so long deserved . There are ...
... wishes and desires of all good men , which have attended your lordship from your first appear- ance in the world , are at length accomplished , from your obtaining those honours and dignities which you have so long deserved . There are ...
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... wishes you so well in all things that re- late to your prosperity , have their intervals of wish- ing for themselves , and are within a little of grud- ging you the fulness of your fortune : they would be more malicious if you used it ...
... wishes you so well in all things that re- late to your prosperity , have their intervals of wish- ing for themselves , and are within a little of grud- ging you the fulness of your fortune : they would be more malicious if you used it ...
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... wish I could as easily remove that other difficulty which yet remains . It is objected by a great French critic , as well as an admirable poet , yet living , and whom I have mentioned with that honour which his merit exacts from me , I ...
... wish I could as easily remove that other difficulty which yet remains . It is objected by a great French critic , as well as an admirable poet , yet living , and whom I have mentioned with that honour which his merit exacts from me , I ...
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... wish a witty friend of mine , now living , had such another . * He bred him in the best school , and with the best ... wishes a father of equal tenderness , after having been gayest of the gay , applauded by theatres , and the object of ...
... wish a witty friend of mine , now living , had such another . * He bred him in the best school , and with the best ... wishes a father of equal tenderness , after having been gayest of the gay , applauded by theatres , and the object of ...
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... wish I could apply it to myself , if the reader would be kind enough to think it belongs to me . The character of Zimri in my " Absalom , " is , in my opinion , worth the whole poem : it is not bloody , but it is ridicu- lous enough ...
... wish I could apply it to myself , if the reader would be kind enough to think it belongs to me . The character of Zimri in my " Absalom , " is , in my opinion , worth the whole poem : it is not bloody , but it is ridicu- lous enough ...
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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...