The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... verse shall on his tomb be read , " He fham'd you living , and upbraids you dead . " With odious atheist names you load your foes ; Your liberal clergy why did I expose ? It never fails in charities like those . In climes where true ...
... verse shall on his tomb be read , " He fham'd you living , and upbraids you dead . " With odious atheist names you load your foes ; Your liberal clergy why did I expose ? It never fails in charities like those . In climes where true ...
Page 113
... verse a native sweetness dwells , Which fhames.compofure , and its art excels . Singing no more can your foft numbers grace , Than paint adds charms unto a beauteous face . Yet as , when mighty rivers gently creep , Their even calmnefs ...
... verse a native sweetness dwells , Which fhames.compofure , and its art excels . Singing no more can your foft numbers grace , Than paint adds charms unto a beauteous face . Yet as , when mighty rivers gently creep , Their even calmnefs ...
Page 116
... verse no less The prophet than the poet doth confefs . Ere our weak eyes difcern'd the doubtful streak Of light , you faw great Charles his morning break . So skilful feamen ken the land from far , Which fhews like mifts to the dull ...
... verse no less The prophet than the poet doth confefs . Ere our weak eyes difcern'd the doubtful streak Of light , you faw great Charles his morning break . So skilful feamen ken the land from far , Which fhews like mifts to the dull ...
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... VERSE . W The feeds of arts and infant fcience bore , ' Tis fure the noble plant , tranflated first , Advanc'd its head in Grecian gardens nurft . The Grecians added verse : their tuneful tongue Made nature firft , and nature's God ...
... VERSE . W The feeds of arts and infant fcience bore , ' Tis fure the noble plant , tranflated first , Advanc'd its head in Grecian gardens nurft . The Grecians added verse : their tuneful tongue Made nature firft , and nature's God ...
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... verse to try , And Satire is our court of Chancery . This way took Horace to reform an age , Not bad enough to need an author's rage . But yours 3 , who liv'd in more degenerate times , Was forc'd to faften deep , and worry crimes . Yet ...
... verse to try , And Satire is our court of Chancery . This way took Horace to reform an age , Not bad enough to need an author's rage . But yours 3 , who liv'd in more degenerate times , Was forc'd to faften deep , and worry crimes . Yet ...
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Page 205 - Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well.
Page 219 - War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Page 218 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Page 221 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy! Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute; Timotheus to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Page 216 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 108 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted bias of thy mind, By which one way to dulness 'tis inclined: Which makes thy writings lean on one side still, And, in all changes, that way bends thy will. Nor let thy mountain-belly make pretence Of likeness; thine's a tympany of sense. A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ, But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit.
Page 22 - As only buz to Heaven with evening wings ; Strike in the dark, offending but by chance ; Such are the blindfold blows of Ignorance : They know not beings,, and but hate a name ; To them the Hind and Panther are the same.
Page 167 - But like a Ball of Fire the further thrown, Still with a greater Blaze she shone, And her bright Soul broke out on ev'ry side.
Page 205 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of...
Page 154 - For Time shall with his ready pencil stand; Retouch your figures with his ripening hand; Mellow your colours, and imbrown the teint; Add every grace, which Time alone can grant; To future ages shall your fame convey, And give more beauties than he takes away.