The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2J. W. Parker and Son, 1854 - 299 pages |
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... dare not pre- tend that to be a legal combination ; but whensoever you are afloat , I doubt not but it will be maintained and justified to purpose . For , indeed , there is nothing to defend it but the sword . It is the proper time to ...
... dare not pre- tend that to be a legal combination ; but whensoever you are afloat , I doubt not but it will be maintained and justified to purpose . For , indeed , there is nothing to defend it but the sword . It is the proper time to ...
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... dare dethrone , And they'll be sure to make his cause their own . Whether the plotting Jesuit laid the plan Of murdering kings , or the French Puritan , Our sacrilegious sects their guides outgo , And kings and kingly power would murder ...
... dare dethrone , And they'll be sure to make his cause their own . Whether the plotting Jesuit laid the plan Of murdering kings , or the French Puritan , Our sacrilegious sects their guides outgo , And kings and kingly power would murder ...
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... dares in socks appear ; But gentle Simkin just reception finds Amidst this monument of vanished minds ; Pure clinches the suburban muse affords , And Panton waging harmless war with words . Here Flecknoe , as a place to fame well known ...
... dares in socks appear ; But gentle Simkin just reception finds Amidst this monument of vanished minds ; Pure clinches the suburban muse affords , And Panton waging harmless war with words . Here Flecknoe , as a place to fame well known ...
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... dare pretend to do , Unless , like Esdras , they could write it new ; Strange confidence , still to interpret true , Yet not be sure that all they have explained Is in the blest original contained . More safe , and much more modest ...
... dare pretend to do , Unless , like Esdras , they could write it new ; Strange confidence , still to interpret true , Yet not be sure that all they have explained Is in the blest original contained . More safe , and much more modest ...
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... dare the grisly challenger . What death could do he lately tried , When in four days he more than died . The same assurance all his words did grace ; One of the physicians in attendance on the king in his last illness . The same ...
... dare the grisly challenger . What death could do he lately tried , When in four days he more than died . The same assurance all his words did grace ; One of the physicians in attendance on the king in his last illness . The same ...
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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.