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... head , ( as merit ought To claim the place , ) you take a swilling draught , How easy ' tis an envious eye to throw , And tax the sheep for troubling streams below ; Or call her ( when no farther cause you find ) An enemy profess'd of ...
... head , ( as merit ought To claim the place , ) you take a swilling draught , How easy ' tis an envious eye to throw , And tax the sheep for troubling streams below ; Or call her ( when no farther cause you find ) An enemy profess'd of ...
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... head ; The best they have to hope , protracted punishment . Be judge yourself , if int'rest may prevail , Which motives , yours or mine , will turn the scale . While pride and pomp allure , and plenteous ease , That is , ' till man's ...
... head ; The best they have to hope , protracted punishment . Be judge yourself , if int'rest may prevail , Which motives , yours or mine , will turn the scale . While pride and pomp allure , and plenteous ease , That is , ' till man's ...
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... head to foot . ' Tis true some stagers of the wiser sort Made all these idle wonderments their sport : They said , their only danger was delay , And he who heard what ev'ry fool could say , 500 Wou'd never fix his thought , but trim his ...
... head to foot . ' Tis true some stagers of the wiser sort Made all these idle wonderments their sport : They said , their only danger was delay , And he who heard what ev'ry fool could say , 500 Wou'd never fix his thought , but trim his ...
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... head Was hooted hence , because she would not pray a - bed . The way to win the restive world to God , Was to lay by the disciplining rod , Unnatʼral fasts , and foreign forms of pray'r : 1030 Religion frights us with a mien severe ...
... head Was hooted hence , because she would not pray a - bed . The way to win the restive world to God , Was to lay by the disciplining rod , Unnatʼral fasts , and foreign forms of pray'r : 1030 Religion frights us with a mien severe ...
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... head aside , That desp❜rate cures must be to desp'rate ills apply'd ; And , therefore , since their main impending fear , Was from th ' increasing race of Chanticleer , Some potent bird of prey they ought to find ; A foe profess'd to ...
... head aside , That desp❜rate cures must be to desp'rate ills apply'd ; And , therefore , since their main impending fear , Was from th ' increasing race of Chanticleer , Some potent bird of prey they ought to find ; A foe profess'd to ...
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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
Popular passages
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.