The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. Now First Collected and Published Together in Four Volumes. With Explanatory Notes and Observations. Also an Account of His Life and Writings ...J. and R. Tonson, in the Strand., 1760 |
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... because his name will be Ennobled by defeat , who durft contend with me . Were mine own valour queftion'd , yet my blood Without that plea would make my title good : My fire was Telamon , whose arms , employ'd With Hercules , thefe ...
... because his name will be Ennobled by defeat , who durft contend with me . Were mine own valour queftion'd , yet my blood Without that plea would make my title good : My fire was Telamon , whose arms , employ'd With Hercules , thefe ...
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... because I came To fight uncall'd , a voluntary name ? Nor fhunn'd the cause , but offer'd you my aid , While he long lurking was to war betray'd : Forc'd to the field he came , but in the rear ; And feign'd diftraction to conceal his ...
... because I came To fight uncall'd , a voluntary name ? Nor fhunn'd the cause , but offer'd you my aid , While he long lurking was to war betray'd : Forc'd to the field he came , but in the rear ; And feign'd diftraction to conceal his ...
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... must employ Against the birds the fhafts due to the fate of Troy . Yet ftill he lives , and lives from treafon free , Because he left Ulyffes ' company : Poor Palamede might wish , fo void of aid Rather 4 THE SPEECHES OF.
... must employ Against the birds the fhafts due to the fate of Troy . Yet ftill he lives , and lives from treafon free , Because he left Ulyffes ' company : Poor Palamede might wish , fo void of aid Rather 4 THE SPEECHES OF.
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... because that on the female part My blood is better , dare I claim defert , Or that my fire from paricide is free ; But judge by merit betwixt him and me : The prize be to the best ; provided yet , That Ajax for a while his kin forget ...
... because that on the female part My blood is better , dare I claim defert , Or that my fire from paricide is free ; But judge by merit betwixt him and me : The prize be to the best ; provided yet , That Ajax for a while his kin forget ...
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... because my limbs and body bear A thick - fet underwood of bristling hair , My fhape deform'd : what fouler fight can be , Than the bald branches of a leafless tree ? Foul is the freed without a flowing mane ; And birds , without their ...
... because my limbs and body bear A thick - fet underwood of bristling hair , My fhape deform'd : what fouler fight can be , Than the bald branches of a leafless tree ? Foul is the freed without a flowing mane ; And birds , without their ...
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Page 308 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Page 214 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Page 79 - ... poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate ; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum...
Page 8 - As well he may compare the day with night. Night is indeed the province of his reign: Yet all his dark exploits no more contain, Than a spy taken, and a sleeper slain...
Page 215 - The character of Zimri in my Absalom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury.
Page 67 - em twinkling up in air. Take not away the life you cannot give, For all things have an equal right to live. Kill noxious creatures, where 'tis sin to save ; This only just prerogative we have: But nourish life with vegetable food, And shun the sacrilegious taste of blood.
Page 288 - Where the Rank Matrons, Dancing to the Pipe, Gig with their Bums, and are for Action ripe...
Page 230 - For to speak sincerely, the manners of nations and ages are not to be confounded : we should either make them English, or leave them Roman.
Page 78 - I take imitation of an author, in their sense, to be an endeavour of a later poet to write like one who has written before him, on the same subject : that is, not to translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write, as he supposes that author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country.
Page 73 - ... equally judges, when we are concerned in the representation of them. Now I will appeal to any man who has read this poet, whether he finds not the natural emotion of the same passion in himself, which the poet describes in his feigned persons ? His thoughts, which are the pictures and results of those passions, are generally such as naturally arise from those disorderly motions of our spirits.