The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Volume 14William Miller, 1808 |
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Page 76
... fury with the rushing male , Indulging pleasure , lest the breed should fail . In youth alone , unhappy mortals live ; But , ah ! the mighty bliss is fugitive : Discoloured sickness , anxious labours , come , And age 76 GEORGICS , III ,
... fury with the rushing male , Indulging pleasure , lest the breed should fail . In youth alone , unhappy mortals live ; But , ah ! the mighty bliss is fugitive : Discoloured sickness , anxious labours , come , And age 76 GEORGICS , III ,
Page 95
... fury to the strength it brought . Recruited into rage , he grinds his teeth In his own flesh , and feeds approaching death . Ye gods , to better fate good men dispose , And turn that impious error on our foes ! The steer , who to the ...
... fury to the strength it brought . Recruited into rage , he grinds his teeth In his own flesh , and feeds approaching death . Ye gods , to better fate good men dispose , And turn that impious error on our foes ! The steer , who to the ...
Page 119
... fury seized on thee , Unhappy man ! to lose thyself and me ? Dragged back again by cruel destinies , An iron slumber shuts my swimming eyes . And now , farewell ! Involved in shades of night , For ever I am ravished from thy sight . In ...
... fury seized on thee , Unhappy man ! to lose thyself and me ? Dragged back again by cruel destinies , An iron slumber shuts my swimming eyes . And now , farewell ! Involved in shades of night , For ever I am ravished from thy sight . In ...
Page 183
... fury , which hurried him to death in their re- venge . But the poet made his piety more success- ful ; he brought off his father and his son ; and his gods witnessed to his devotion , by putting them- selves under his protection , to be ...
... fury , which hurried him to death in their re- venge . But the poet made his piety more success- ful ; he brought off his father and his son ; and his gods witnessed to his devotion , by putting them- selves under his protection , to be ...
Page 185
... fury and death of Dido ? Where is there the whole process of her pas- sion , and all its violent effects to be found , in the languishing episode of the Odysses ? If this be to copy , let the critics shew us the same dispositions ...
... fury and death of Dido ? Where is there the whole process of her pas- sion , and all its violent effects to be found , in the languishing episode of the Odysses ? If this be to copy , let the critics shew us the same dispositions ...
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