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... embrace , Affected kindness , with an alter'd face : Yet durst she not too deeply probe the wound , 80 As hoping still the nobler parts were sound : But strove with anodynes t ' assuage the smart , A 2 THE HIND AND THE PANTHER . 7.
... embrace , Affected kindness , with an alter'd face : Yet durst she not too deeply probe the wound , 80 As hoping still the nobler parts were sound : But strove with anodynes t ' assuage the smart , A 2 THE HIND AND THE PANTHER . 7.
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... face , Are far the worst of your pretended race ; 162 And , ( but I blush your honesty to blot , ) Pray God you prove them lawfully begot : For in some Popish libels I have read , The wolf has been too busy in your bed ; At least her ...
... face , Are far the worst of your pretended race ; 162 And , ( but I blush your honesty to blot , ) Pray God you prove them lawfully begot : For in some Popish libels I have read , The wolf has been too busy in your bed ; At least her ...
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... face ; But dint of argument is out of place : The grim logician puts them in a fright ; ' Tis easier far to flourish than to fight . Thus our eighth Henry's marriage they defame ; They say the schism of beds began the game , Divorcing ...
... face ; But dint of argument is out of place : The grim logician puts them in a fright ; ' Tis easier far to flourish than to fight . Thus our eighth Henry's marriage they defame ; They say the schism of beds began the game , Divorcing ...
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... faces , his devotion paid , And sacrifice , with solemn rites , was made , And sacred incense on his altars laid . Besides these jolly birds , whose corps impure Repaid their commons with their salt manure , Another farm he had behind ...
... faces , his devotion paid , And sacrifice , with solemn rites , was made , And sacred incense on his altars laid . Besides these jolly birds , whose corps impure Repaid their commons with their salt manure , Another farm he had behind ...
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... face , Is daunted at the sight of awful grace ) An hideous figure of their foes they drew , Nor lines , nor looks , nor shades , nor colours true ; 1050 And this grotesque design expos'd to public view . One would have thought it some ...
... face , Is daunted at the sight of awful grace ) An hideous figure of their foes they drew , Nor lines , nor looks , nor shades , nor colours true ; 1050 And this grotesque design expos'd to public view . One would have thought it some ...
Common terms and phrases
Amyntas Arcite arms beauty began behold betwixt blood breast call'd Canterbury tales charms Chaucer court crime crowd damn'd dare death design'd DRYDEN DUCHESS of YORK Duke of Guise e'en Emily EPILOGUE ev'ry eyes face fair fame fate fear fight foes fools forc'd give grace happy hast heart Heav'n heav'nly honor JOHN DRYDEN kind king knight ladies laws learn'd liv'd live look'd lord lov'd mighty mind mortal Muse ne'er never noble numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon peace Pirithous plac'd play pleas'd pleasure poets pow'r praise prince PROLOGUE queen race rais'd reign rest rhyme sacred satire scarce sigh sight Silent Woman soul sov'reign stage sure sweet Thebes thee Theseus thine thou thought thro true turn'd Twas UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD verse Virgil virtue whate'er Whigs wise write young youth
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Page 70 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Page 6 - Less than a God they 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 ? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms.
Page 51 - Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years: Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Page 72 - He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...
Page 78 - He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off ; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace.
Page 38 - She gave but glimpses of her glorious mind : And multitudes of virtues pass'd along ; Each pressing foremost in the mighty throng, Ambitious to be seen, and then make room For greater multitudes that were to come.
Page 96 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Page 69 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 134 - 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.
Page 75 - Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part, since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners; under which name I comprehend the passions and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons and their very habits.