The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksPaterson, 1884 |
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... favour of my friend Richard Heber , Esq .; and , while correcting this sheet , I received another copy from Mr. Finlay , author of the " Vale of Ellerslie . " It is of the last degree of rarity , since it has escaped the researches even ...
... favour of my friend Richard Heber , Esq .; and , while correcting this sheet , I received another copy from Mr. Finlay , author of the " Vale of Ellerslie . " It is of the last degree of rarity , since it has escaped the researches even ...
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... favoured his politics many a point of view , in which the splendour of his character might hide its blemishes . * It is remarkable , how- ever , that , in handling this theme , Dryden has observed a singular and happy delicacy . The ...
... favoured his politics many a point of view , in which the splendour of his character might hide its blemishes . * It is remarkable , how- ever , that , in handling this theme , Dryden has observed a singular and happy delicacy . The ...
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... favoured their most arbitrary aggressions upon liberty . In " A Poem to His Most Excellent Majesty , Charles the Second , Ego beneficio tuo ( Cæsar ) quos ante audiebam hodie vidi Deos : Nec feliciorem ullum vitæ meæ aut optavi aut ...
... favoured their most arbitrary aggressions upon liberty . In " A Poem to His Most Excellent Majesty , Charles the Second , Ego beneficio tuo ( Cæsar ) quos ante audiebam hodie vidi Deos : Nec feliciorem ullum vitæ meæ aut optavi aut ...
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... favour of his soul to go into some retired corner of his body , in order to avoid contamination from the horrible potion . + Salmoneus , tyrant of Elis , made such a contrivance to imitate thunder , for which he was destroyed with ...
... favour of his soul to go into some retired corner of his body , in order to avoid contamination from the horrible potion . + Salmoneus , tyrant of Elis , made such a contrivance to imitate thunder , for which he was destroyed with ...
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... favour . His fall took place in 1667 , when he was attainted * and banished . The popular discontent was chiefly excited against him by a groundless charge of corruption ; an accusation to which the vulgar lend a greedy and implicit ...
... favour . His fall took place in 1667 , when he was attainted * and banished . The popular discontent was chiefly excited against him by a groundless charge of corruption ; an accusation to which the vulgar lend a greedy and implicit ...
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Página 76 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Página 47 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Página 259 - Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 47 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
Página 239 - A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Página 263 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, '°° Great Villiers lies...
Página 286 - Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
Página 306 - Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight of one brave man can do.
Página 148 - With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves : Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves.
Página 84 - Holland fleet, who, tir'il and done, Stretch'd on their decks, like weary oxen lie : Faint sweats all down their mighty members run, (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, • Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more.