The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, 第 11 巻A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... light , you saw great Charles his morning break : † So skilful seamen ken the land from far , Which shews like mists to the dull passenger . To Charles your muse first pays her duteous love , As still the ancients did begin from Jove ...
... light , you saw great Charles his morning break : † So skilful seamen ken the land from far , Which shews like mists to the dull passenger . To Charles your muse first pays her duteous love , As still the ancients did begin from Jove ...
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... light . So truth , while only one supplied the state , Grew scarce , and dear , and yet sophisticate . Still it was bought , like emp'ric wares , or charms , Hard words seal'd up with Aristotle's arms . Columbus was the first that shook ...
... light . So truth , while only one supplied the state , Grew scarce , and dear , and yet sophisticate . Still it was bought , like emp'ric wares , or charms , Hard words seal'd up with Aristotle's arms . Columbus was the first that shook ...
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... light , And is , like that , unspent too in its flight . Whatever truths have been , by art or chance , Redeem'd from error , or from ignorance , Thin in their authors , like rich veins of ore , Your works unite , and still discover ...
... light , And is , like that , unspent too in its flight . Whatever truths have been , by art or chance , Redeem'd from error , or from ignorance , Thin in their authors , like rich veins of ore , Your works unite , and still discover ...
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... light and gallant effusion , than its importance deserved . * The verses abound with spright- ly and ingenious turns ; and the conceits , which were the taste of the age , shew to some advantage on such an occasion . There is , however ...
... light and gallant effusion , than its importance deserved . * The verses abound with spright- ly and ingenious turns ; and the conceits , which were the taste of the age , shew to some advantage on such an occasion . There is , however ...
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... light ; Like them are good , but from a nobler cause , From your own knowledge , not from nature's laws . Your power you never use , but for defence , To guard your own , or others ' innocence : Your foes are such , as they , not you ...
... light ; Like them are good , but from a nobler cause , From your own knowledge , not from nature's laws . Your power you never use , but for defence , To guard your own , or others ' innocence : Your foes are such , as they , not you ...
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187 ページ - Those are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain, 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.
167 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.
189 ページ - 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 angel down.
160 ページ - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
185 ページ - Flush'd 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...
215 ページ - I wol yow telle a tale which that I Lerned at Padowe of a worthy clerk, As preved by his wordes and his werk. He is now deed and nayled in his cheste, I prey to god so yeve his soule reste.
219 ページ - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil.
168 ページ - Excites us to arms With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thundering drum Cries, hark ! the foes come ; Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat.
170 ページ - GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blest above : So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
191 ページ - But, oh, inflame and fire our hearts ! Our frailties help, our vice control, Submit the senses to the soul; And when rebellious they are grown, Then lay thy hand, and hold them down. 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.