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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... 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 excused by the lit- tle experience of the author , and the modesty of ...
... 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 excused by the lit- tle experience of the author , and the modesty of ...
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... reason ; which of ne- cessity will give allowance to the failings of others , by considering that there is nothing perfect in man- kind ; and by distinguishing that which comes near- est to excellency , though not absolutely free from ...
... reason ; which of ne- cessity will give allowance to the failings of others , by considering that there is nothing perfect in man- kind ; and by distinguishing that which comes near- est to excellency , though not absolutely free from ...
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... reason is plainly this , that rhyme was not his talent ; he had neither the ease of doing it , nor the graces of it ; which is manifest in his " Juvenilia , " or verses written in his youth , where his rhyme is always constrained and ...
... reason is plainly this , that rhyme was not his talent ; he had neither the ease of doing it , nor the graces of it ; which is manifest in his " Juvenilia , " or verses written in his youth , where his rhyme is always constrained and ...
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... reason , when he pleases . Consequently , what pleasure , what enter- tainment , can be raised from so pitiful a machine , where we see the success of the battle from the very beginning of it ; unless that , as we are Chris- tians , we ...
... reason , when he pleases . Consequently , what pleasure , what enter- tainment , can be raised from so pitiful a machine , where we see the success of the battle from the very beginning of it ; unless that , as we are Chris- tians , we ...
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... reason of the excess . There is continual abundance , a magazine of thought , and yet a perpetual variety of entertainment ; which creates such an appetite in your reader , that he is not cloyed with any thing , but satisfied with all ...
... reason of the excess . There is continual abundance , a magazine of thought , and yet a perpetual variety of entertainment ; which creates such an appetite in your reader , that he is not cloyed with any thing , but satisfied with all ...
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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...