The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2J. W. Parker and Son, 1854 - 299 pages |
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... HAPPY MEMORY OF KING CHARLES II . • TO THE PIOUS MEMORY OF THE ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG LADY MRS . ANNE KILLIGREW , EXCELLENT IN THE TWO SISTER ARTS OF POESY AND PAINT- ING . AN ODE . 1685 s 57 74 TO MR . NORTHLEIGH , AUTHOR OF THE ' PARALLEL ...
... HAPPY MEMORY OF KING CHARLES II . • TO THE PIOUS MEMORY OF THE ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG LADY MRS . ANNE KILLIGREW , EXCELLENT IN THE TWO SISTER ARTS OF POESY AND PAINT- ING . AN ODE . 1685 s 57 74 TO MR . NORTHLEIGH , AUTHOR OF THE ' PARALLEL ...
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... happy as to purchase the original . I hear the graver has made a good market of it : all his kings are bought up already ; or the value of the remainder so enhanced , that many a poor Polander who would be glad to worship the image , is ...
... happy as to purchase the original . I hear the graver has made a good market of it : all his kings are bought up already ; or the value of the remainder so enhanced , that many a poor Polander who would be glad to worship the image , is ...
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... happy England , if our good we knew , Would we possess the freedom we pursue ! The lavish government can give no more ; Yet we repine , and plenty makes us poor . God tried us once ; our rebel fathers fought ; He glutted them with all ...
... happy England , if our good we knew , Would we possess the freedom we pursue ! The lavish government can give no more ; Yet we repine , and plenty makes us poor . God tried us once ; our rebel fathers fought ; He glutted them with all ...
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... Happy who can this talking trumpet seize ; They make it speak whatever sense they please ! ' Twas framed at first our oracle , to inquire ; But since our sects in prophecy grow higher , The text inspires not them , but they the text ...
... Happy who can this talking trumpet seize ; They make it speak whatever sense they please ! ' Twas framed at first our oracle , to inquire ; But since our sects in prophecy grow higher , The text inspires not them , but they the text ...
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... HAPPY MEMORY OF KING CHARLES II . Fortunati ambo ! si quid mea carmina possunt , Nulla dies unquam memori vos eximet ævo . VIRG . The [ CHARLES II . died on the 6th of February , 1684-5 . reader , who is not already acquainted with the ...
... HAPPY MEMORY OF KING CHARLES II . Fortunati ambo ! si quid mea carmina possunt , Nulla dies unquam memori vos eximet ævo . VIRG . The [ CHARLES II . died on the 6th of February , 1684-5 . reader , who is not already acquainted with the ...
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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.