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 75
... heroes , whose etherial root Is Jove himself , and Cæsar is the fruit . Tros and his race the sculptor shall employ ; And he -- the god who built the walls of Troy . Envy herself at last , grown pale and dumb , ( By Cæsar combated and ...
... heroes , whose etherial root Is Jove himself , and Cæsar is the fruit . Tros and his race the sculptor shall employ ; And he -- the god who built the walls of Troy . Envy herself at last , grown pale and dumb , ( By Cæsar combated and ...
Page 118
... hero's more majestic shade , And youths , on funeral piles before their parents laid . All these Cocytus bounds with squalid reeds , With muddy ditches , and with deadly weeds ; And baleful Styx encompasses around , * With nine slow ...
... hero's more majestic shade , And youths , on funeral piles before their parents laid . All these Cocytus bounds with squalid reeds , With muddy ditches , and with deadly weeds ; And baleful Styx encompasses around , * With nine slow ...
Page 123
... in the Æneïs , I thought not myself obliged to be so exact ; for , in naming many men , who were killed by heroes , I have omitted some , which would not sound in English verse . Note III . -Orpheus ' dying prayers at length are.
... in the Æneïs , I thought not myself obliged to be so exact ; for , in naming many men , who were killed by heroes , I have omitted some , which would not sound in English verse . Note III . -Orpheus ' dying prayers at length are.
Page 129
... heroes all alike , ) or more properly for the tragi- cal end of the two brothers , whose exequies the next successor had leisure to perform when the siege was raised , and in the interval betwixt the poet's first action and his second ...
... heroes all alike , ) or more properly for the tragi- cal end of the two brothers , whose exequies the next successor had leisure to perform when the siege was raised , and in the interval betwixt the poet's first action and his second ...
Page 133
... hero , his magnanimity , his constancy , his pa- tience , his piety , or whatever characteristical virtue his poet ... hero's chief quality be vicious , as , for example , the choler and obstinate desire of vengeance in Achilles , yet ...
... hero , his magnanimity , his constancy , his pa- tience , his piety , or whatever characteristical virtue his poet ... hero's chief quality be vicious , as , for example , the choler and obstinate desire of vengeance in Achilles , yet ...
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