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 13William Miller, 1808 |
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... amongst the moderns , which are extremely different from ours , by reason of their opposite taste ; yet even then , I had the presumption to dedicate to your lordship - a very unfinished piece , I must confess , and which only can be ...
... amongst the moderns , which are extremely different from ours , by reason of their opposite taste ; yet even then , I had the presumption to dedicate to your lordship - a very unfinished piece , I must confess , and which only can be ...
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... amongst men , and the most vir- tuous amongst women . Heaven be praised , our common libellers are as free from the imputation of wit as of morality ; and therefore whatever mischief they have design- ed , they have performed but little ...
... amongst men , and the most vir- tuous amongst women . Heaven be praised , our common libellers are as free from the imputation of wit as of morality ; and therefore whatever mischief they have design- ed , they have performed but little ...
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... amongst the ignorant , but the sceptres on the guineas show the difference . * That your lordship is formed by nature for this supremacy , I could easily prove , ( were it not already granted by the world , ) from the distinguishing ...
... amongst the ignorant , but the sceptres on the guineas show the difference . * That your lordship is formed by nature for this supremacy , I could easily prove , ( were it not already granted by the world , ) from the distinguishing ...
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... amongst the Greeks ; that of Au- gustus , for heroic , lyric , dramatic , elegiac , and in- deed all sorts of poetry , in the persons of Virgil , Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; especially if we take into that century the ...
... amongst the Greeks ; that of Au- gustus , for heroic , lyric , dramatic , elegiac , and in- deed all sorts of poetry , in the persons of Virgil , Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; especially if we take into that century the ...
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... amongst the moderns , Ariosto neither designed just- ly , nor observed any unity of action , or compass of time , or moderation in the vastness of his draught : his style is luxurious , without majesty or decency , and his adventures ...
... amongst the moderns , Ariosto neither designed just- ly , nor observed any unity of action , or compass of time , or moderation in the vastness of his draught : his style is luxurious , without majesty or decency , and his adventures ...
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Page 178 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Page 27 - Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, 19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong.
Page 308 - Tell good Barzillai thou canst sing no more, And tell thy soul she should have fled before. Or fled she with his life, and left this verse To hang on her departed patron's hearse?
Page 26 - And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.
Page 27 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. 21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Page 26 - His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Page 399 - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.
Page 17 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Page 408 - The pines of Maenalus, the vocal grove, Are ever full of verse, and full of love ; They hear the hinds, they hear their god complain, Who suffered not the reeds to rise in vain.
Page 222 - When wilt thou, mighty Jove, My wealthy uncle from this world remove...