The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... fate , Her sight is purchased at an easy rate . Three gloomy years against this day were set ; But this one mighty sum has clear'd the debt : Like Joseph's dream , but with a better doom , The famine past , the plenty still to come ...
... fate , Her sight is purchased at an easy rate . Three gloomy years against this day were set ; But this one mighty sum has clear'd the debt : Like Joseph's dream , but with a better doom , The famine past , the plenty still to come ...
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... fate's decree To be perform'd and sung by thee . Thou break'st through forms with as much ease As the French king through articles . In grand affairs thy days are spent , In waging weighty compliment , With such as monarchs represent ...
... fate's decree To be perform'd and sung by thee . Thou break'st through forms with as much ease As the French king through articles . In grand affairs thy days are spent , In waging weighty compliment , With such as monarchs represent ...
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... fate is an instance , among a thousand , of the disadvantage sustained by an inferior genius , who enters into collision with one of supereminent talents . It is the combat of a gun - boat with a frigate ; and many an author has been ...
... fate is an instance , among a thousand , of the disadvantage sustained by an inferior genius , who enters into collision with one of supereminent talents . It is the combat of a gun - boat with a frigate ; and many an author has been ...
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... eighty - first birth - day , was complimented with a copy of verses by Pope ; and on 26th May , 1746 , he died at the advanced age of eighty - five and upwards . VOL . XI . D EPISTLE THE TENTH . SURE there's a fate in plays EPISTLES . 49.
... eighty - first birth - day , was complimented with a copy of verses by Pope ; and on 26th May , 1746 , he died at the advanced age of eighty - five and upwards . VOL . XI . D EPISTLE THE TENTH . SURE there's a fate in plays EPISTLES . 49.
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... fate in plays , and ' tis in vain To write , while these malignant planets reign . Some very foolish influence rules the pit , Not always kind to sense , or just to wit ; And whilst it lasts , let buffoonry succeed , To make us laugh ...
... fate in plays , and ' tis in vain To write , while these malignant planets reign . Some very foolish influence rules the pit , Not always kind to sense , or just to wit ; And whilst it lasts , let buffoonry succeed , To make us laugh ...
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Page 187 - Those are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain, And, unburied, remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew. Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 167 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Page 189 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged 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.
Page 160 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 185 - Flush'd with a purple grace, He shows his honest face; Now give the hautboys breath: he comes! he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Page 215 - I wol yow telle a tale which that I Lerned at Padowe of a worthy clerk, As preved by his wordes and his werk. He is now deed and nayled in his cheste, I prey to god so yeve his soule reste.
Page 219 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil.
Page 168 - Excites us to arms With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thundering drum Cries, hark ! the foes come ; Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat.
Page 170 - GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blest above : So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Page 191 - But, oh, inflame and fire our hearts ! Our frailties help, our vice control, Submit the senses to the soul; And when rebellious they are grown, Then lay thy hand, and hold them down. Chase from our minds the infernal foe, And peace, the fruit of Love, bestow ; And lest our feet should step astray, Protect and guide us in the way.