The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2J. W. Parker and Son, 1854 - 299 pages |
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... Muses drooped , with their forsaken arts , And the sad Cupids broke their useless darts ; Our fruitful plains to wilds and deserts turned , Like Eden's face , when banished man it mourned . Love was no more , when loyalty was gone , The ...
... Muses drooped , with their forsaken arts , And the sad Cupids broke their useless darts ; Our fruitful plains to wilds and deserts turned , Like Eden's face , when banished man it mourned . Love was no more , when loyalty was gone , The ...
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... Muse resumes her long - forgotten lays , And Love , restored , his ancient realm surveys , Recals our beauties , and revives our plays , His waste dominions peoples once again , And from her presence dates his second reign . But awful ...
... Muse resumes her long - forgotten lays , And Love , restored , his ancient realm surveys , Recals our beauties , and revives our plays , His waste dominions peoples once again , And from her presence dates his second reign . But awful ...
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... muse affords , And Panton waging harmless war with words . Here Flecknoe , as a place to fame well known , Ambitiously designed his Shadwell's throne . For ancient Decker prophesied long since , That in this pile should reign a mighty ...
... muse affords , And Panton waging harmless war with words . Here Flecknoe , as a place to fame well known , Ambitiously designed his Shadwell's throne . For ancient Decker prophesied long since , That in this pile should reign a mighty ...
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... muse from Fletcher scenes purloin , As thou whole Etherege dost transfuse to thine ? But so transfused , as oil and waters flow , His always floats above , thine sinks below . This is thy province , this thy wondrous way , New humours ...
... muse from Fletcher scenes purloin , As thou whole Etherege dost transfuse to thine ? But so transfused , as oil and waters flow , His always floats above , thine sinks below . This is thy province , this thy wondrous way , New humours ...
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... muse gives smiles , thy comic , sleep . With whate'er gall thou sett'st thyself to write , Thy inoffensive satires never bite ; In thy felonious heart though venom lies , It does but touch thy Irish pen , and dies . Thy genius calls ...
... muse gives smiles , thy comic , sleep . With whate'er gall thou sett'st thyself to write , Thy inoffensive satires never bite ; In thy felonious heart though venom lies , It does but touch thy Irish pen , and dies . Thy genius calls ...
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Page 206 - 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 26 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Page 207 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes...
Page 211 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd 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.
Page 90 - A MILK-WHITE Hind, immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns and in the forest ranged ; Without unspotted, innocent within, She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
Page 168 - 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!
Page 92 - Follow'd false lights ; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am ; Be thine the glory and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task : my doubts are done ; What more could shock my faith than Three in One ? " In drawing Dryden's character, Johnson has given, though I suppose unintentionally, some touches of his own.
Page 31 - admiring throng loud acclamations make And omens of his future empire take. The sire then shook the honours of his head, And from his brows damps of oblivion shed Full on the filial...
Page 168 - What passion cannot Music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound: Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well.
Page 255 - 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.