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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... youth , where his rhyme is always constrained and forced , and comes hardly from him , at an age when the soul is most pliant , and the passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer , though not a poet . By this time , my lord , I ...
... youth , where his rhyme is always constrained and forced , and comes hardly from him , at an age when the soul is most pliant , and the passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer , though not a poet . By this time , my lord , I ...
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... youth : But neither of them had arrived to that maturity of judgment , which is ne- cessary to the accomplishing of a formed poet . And this consideration , as , on the one hand , it lays some imperfections to their charge , so , on the ...
... youth : But neither of them had arrived to that maturity of judgment , which is ne- cessary to the accomplishing of a formed poet . And this consideration , as , on the one hand , it lays some imperfections to their charge , so , on the ...
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... youth , the famous Cowley ; there I found , instead of them , the points of wit , and quirks of epigram , even in the " Davideis , " an heroic poem , which is of an opposite nature to those puerilities ; but no ele- gant turns either on ...
... youth , the famous Cowley ; there I found , instead of them , the points of wit , and quirks of epigram , even in the " Davideis , " an heroic poem , which is of an opposite nature to those puerilities ; but no ele- gant turns either on ...
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... youth , what beauty , could the adulterer boast ? What was the face , for which she could sustain To be called mistress to so base a man ? The gallant of his days had known the best ; Deep scars were seen indented on his breast , And ...
... youth , what beauty , could the adulterer boast ? What was the face , for which she could sustain To be called mistress to so base a man ? The gallant of his days had known the best ; Deep scars were seen indented on his breast , And ...
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... youth in grace , Nay , tips the wink before the cuckold's face ; And might do more , her portion makes it good ; Wealth has the privilege of widowhood . * These truths with his example you disprove , Who with his wife is monstrously in ...
... youth in grace , Nay , tips the wink before the cuckold's face ; And might do more , her portion makes it good ; Wealth has the privilege of widowhood . * These truths with his example you disprove , Who with his wife is monstrously in ...
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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...