The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, with Notes, Volumen2 |
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againſt appear bear beauty becauſe began beſt better blood breaſt cauſe Church common death DERRICK Dryden eyes face fair faith fall fame fate fear fight fire firſt foes fome fools force foul give grace ground hand head heaven himſelf Hind honour hope Italy judge juſt kind king laſt laws learned leaſt leave leſs light live look mean mind moſt muſe muſt nature never once Original edition pains Panther peace plain play pleaſe poem poets praiſe prince PROLOGUE race reign reſt riſe ſaid ſay ſee ſeems ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſtand ſtate ſtill ſubjects ſuch thee theſe thing thoſe thou thought TODD tranſlated true turn uſe verſe virtue WARTON whoſe write young
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Página 342 - 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.
Página 335 - 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 322 - Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well.
Página 172 - Near these a Nursery erects its head. Where queens are form'd, and future heroes bred ; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.
Página 342 - 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 337 - 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 569 - As for the Dog, the Furies, and their snakes, The gloomy caverns, and the burning lakes, And all the vain infernal trumpery, They neither are, nor were, nor e'er can be.
Página 239 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Página 334 - 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 512 - English, in poetical expressions, and in musical numbers; for, though all these are exceeding difficult to perform, there yet remains an harder task ; and it is a secret of which few translators have sufficiently thought. I have already hinted a word or two concerning it ; that is, the...