The poetical works of John Dryden [with a life of Dryden by R. Hooper].Bell and Daldy, 1866 |
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ALBION AND ALBANIUS appear Arcite arms AURENGZEBE beauty behold betwixt blood breast breath call'd chang'd Chanticleer Chaucer court dare dead death delight disdain Dryden e'en e'er Emily English EPILOGUE eyes fair fatal fury fate fear fight fire fool fops fortune give grace happy haste heart heaven honour hope humour Jealousy JOHN DRYDEN Jove judge kind king ladies live lord Lord Roscommon lovers Lucretius maid mighty mind monarch muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er Ovid pains Palamon Pindar pity plain play pleas'd pleasure poet poetry prince prince of Tyre PROLOGUE queen rais'd reign rest rhyme sacred scarce scenes sense sing sleep song soul stage sweet Thebes thee THEOCRITUS Theseus Thou tyrant thought translated true twas UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Venus verse Virgil whate'er Whig words writ write youth
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17 ページ - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
18 ページ - 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. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before — Let old Timotheus yield the prize Or both divide the crown; He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an...
20 ページ - Chase from our minds the infernal foe, And peace, the fruit of love, bestow ; And, lest our feet should step astray, Protect and guide us in the way. Make us eternal truths receive, And practise all that we believe : Give us thyself, that we may see The Father, and the Son, by thee. Immortal honor, endless fame, Attend the...
15 ページ - Revolving in his alter'd soul The various turns of Chance below; And now and then a sigh he stole And tears began to flow.
12 ページ - Twas at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state...
3 ページ - 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 the notes it ran, The...
16 ページ - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
171 ページ - Chaucer, would deprive the greater part of their countrymen of the same advantage, and hoard him up, as misers do their grandam gold, only to look on it themselves, and hinder others from making use of it. In sum, I seriously protest, that no man ever had, or can have, a greater veneration for Chaucer than myself. I have translated some part of his works, only that I might perpetuate his memory, or at least refresh it, amongst my countrymen.
14 ページ - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
168 ページ - If I had desired more to please than to instruct, the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers, as there are beaux and ladies of pleasure in the town.