The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... light , They had not time to take a steady fight . For truth has such a face and such a mien , As to be lov'd needs only to be seen . joined in writing " The hind and panther parodied in the ftory of the country mouse and the city moufe ...
... light , They had not time to take a steady fight . For truth has such a face and such a mien , As to be lov'd needs only to be seen . joined in writing " The hind and panther parodied in the ftory of the country mouse and the city moufe ...
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... light , A blaze of glory that forbids the fight . O teach me to believe thee thus conceal'd , And fearch no farther than thyself reveal'd ; But her alone for my director take , Whom thou haft promis'd never to forfake ! My thoughtless ...
... light , A blaze of glory that forbids the fight . O teach me to believe thee thus conceal'd , And fearch no farther than thyself reveal'd ; But her alone for my director take , Whom thou haft promis'd never to forfake ! My thoughtless ...
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... light as chaff that flies before the wind . Were all those wonders wrought by power divine , As means or ends of fome more deep defign ? Moft fure as means , whofe end was this alone , To prove the Godhead of th ' eternal fon . God thus ...
... light as chaff that flies before the wind . Were all those wonders wrought by power divine , As means or ends of fome more deep defign ? Moft fure as means , whofe end was this alone , To prove the Godhead of th ' eternal fon . God thus ...
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... light By which the makes our nether regions bright , So might the fhine , reflecting from afar The rays the borrow'd from a better star ; Big with the beams , which from her mother flow , And reigning o'er the rifing tides below : Now ...
... light By which the makes our nether regions bright , So might the fhine , reflecting from afar The rays the borrow'd from a better star ; Big with the beams , which from her mother flow , And reigning o'er the rifing tides below : Now ...
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... light : The birds obfcene to forefts wing'd their flight , And gaping graves receiv'd the wand'ring guilty ( pright . I The renunciation of the Benedictines to the abby lands . Such Such were the pleafing triumphs of the sky , For The ...
... light : The birds obfcene to forefts wing'd their flight , And gaping graves receiv'd the wand'ring guilty ( pright . I The renunciation of the Benedictines to the abby lands . Such Such were the pleafing triumphs of the sky , For The ...
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Página 205 - Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well.
Página 219 - War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Página 218 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Página 221 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy! Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute; Timotheus to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Página 216 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Página 108 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted bias of thy mind, By which one way to dulness 'tis inclined: Which makes thy writings lean on one side still, And, in all changes, that way bends thy will. Nor let thy mountain-belly make pretence Of likeness; thine's a tympany of sense. A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ, But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit.
Página 22 - As only buz to Heaven with evening wings ; Strike in the dark, offending but by chance ; Such are the blindfold blows of Ignorance : They know not beings,, and but hate a name ; To them the Hind and Panther are the same.
Página 167 - But like a Ball of Fire the further thrown, Still with a greater Blaze she shone, And her bright Soul broke out on ev'ry side.
Página 205 - 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. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of...
Página 154 - For Time shall with his ready pencil stand; Retouch your figures with his ripening hand; Mellow your colours, and imbrown the teint; Add every grace, which Time alone can grant; To future ages shall your fame convey, And give more beauties than he takes away.