The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... Fire March 26 , 1674 page 231 Prologue fpoken at the opening of the New House , Epilogue on the fame Occafion Prologue to the University of Oxford , 1674 , Prologue to Circe , 1675 , 232 234 235 237 Epilogue intended to have been spoken ...
... Fire March 26 , 1674 page 231 Prologue fpoken at the opening of the New House , Epilogue on the fame Occafion Prologue to the University of Oxford , 1674 , Prologue to Circe , 1675 , 232 234 235 237 Epilogue intended to have been spoken ...
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... fire the reader fhould know concerning me , he will find in the body of the poem , if he have but the patience to perufe it . Only this advertisement let him take before - hand , which relates to the merits of the cause . No general ...
... fire the reader fhould know concerning me , he will find in the body of the poem , if he have but the patience to perufe it . Only this advertisement let him take before - hand , which relates to the merits of the cause . No general ...
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... fires , Follow'd falfe lights ; and , when their glimpfe was gone , My pride ftruck out new fparkles of her own , Such was I , fuch by nature ftill I am ; Be thine the glory , and be mine the shame . Good life be now my task : my doubts ...
... fires , Follow'd falfe lights ; and , when their glimpfe was gone , My pride ftruck out new fparkles of her own , Such was I , fuch by nature ftill I am ; Be thine the glory , and be mine the shame . Good life be now my task : my doubts ...
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... fire below , your monsters breed In fenny Holland , and in fruitful Tweed : And like the firft the last affects to be Drawn to the dregs of a democracy . As , where in fields the fairy rounds are feen , A rank four herbage rifes on the ...
... fire below , your monsters breed In fenny Holland , and in fruitful Tweed : And like the firft the last affects to be Drawn to the dregs of a democracy . As , where in fields the fairy rounds are feen , A rank four herbage rifes on the ...
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... fire was given To brutes , th ' inferior family of heaven : The fmith divine , as with a careless beat , Struck out the mute creation at a heat : C 2 But But when arriv'd at last to human race , The The HIND and the PANTHER . 19.
... fire was given To brutes , th ' inferior family of heaven : The fmith divine , as with a careless beat , Struck out the mute creation at a heat : C 2 But But when arriv'd at last to human race , The The HIND and the PANTHER . 19.
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Página 206 - ... thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Página 221 - 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.
Página 216 - On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were plac'd around; Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound : (So should desert in arms be crown'd.) The lovely Thais, by his side, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride In flow'r of youth and beauty's pride.
Página 364 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Página 217 - With flying fingers touched the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above, (Such is the power of mighty love.) A dragon's fiery form belied the god : Sublime on radiant spires he rode, When he to fair Olympia...
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 135 - WELL then, the promised hour is come at last, The present age of wit obscures the past...
Página 103 - Even I, a dunce of more renown than they, Was sent before but to prepare thy way; And, coarsely clad in Norwich drugget, came To teach the nations in thy greater name.
Página 137 - That your least praise is to be regular. Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught. This is your portion, this your native store : Heaven, that but once was prodigal before. To Shakespeare gave as much; she could not give him more.
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...