Dryden's Palamon and Arcite; Or, The Knight's Tale

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Silver, Burdett, 1898 - 92 ページ
 

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54 ページ - The balls of his broad eyes rolled in his head, And glared betwixt a yellow and a red; He looked a lion with a gloomy stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair; Big-boned and large of limbs, with sinews strong, Broad-shouldered, and his arms were round and long.
57 ページ - Alas! I have not words to tell my grief; To vent my sorrow would be some relief; Light sufferings give us leisure to complain; We groan, but cannot speak, in greater pain.
82 ページ - The attentive audience, thus his will declared : ' The Cause and Spring of motion, from above, Hung down on earth the golden chain of Love; Great was the effect, and high was his intent, When peace among the jarring seeds he sent ; Fire, flood, and earth, and air, by this were bound, And Love, the common link, the new creation crowned.
11 ページ - I have presumed further, in some places, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true lustre, for want of words in the beginning of our language.
49 ページ - On the other side, there stood Destruction bare; Unpunish'd Rapine, and a waste of War. Contest, with sharpen'd knives, in cloisters drawn, And all with blood bespread the holy lawn.
76 ページ - Tis all I can enjoy of all your charms : This hand I cannot but in death resign ; Ah, could I live ! but while I live 'tis mine. I feel my end approach, and thus embraced, Am pleased to die ; but hear me speak my last.
48 ページ - Where neither beast, nor human kind repair; The fowl, that scent afar, the borders fly, And shun the bitter blast, and wheel about the sky. A cake of scurf lies baking on the ground, And prickly stubs, instead of trees, are found; Or woods, with knots and knares...
47 ページ - The costly feast, the carol, and the dance, Minstrels and music, poetry and play, And balls by night, and turnaments by day.
66 ページ - Knights, with a long retinue of their squires, In gaudy liveries march, and quaint attires : One laced the helm, another held the lance, A third the shining buckler did advance. The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet, And snorting foam'd, and champ'd the golden bit.
20 ページ - At every turn she made a little stand, And thrust among the thorns her lily hand To draw the rose; and every rose she drew, She shook the stalk, and brushed away the dew...

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