The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... mean Good - nature , are of daily use : they are the bread of mankind , and staff of life : neither fighs , nor tears , nor groans , nor curfes of the vanquished , follow acts of compaffion , and of charity but a fin- cere pleasure and ...
... mean Good - nature , are of daily use : they are the bread of mankind , and staff of life : neither fighs , nor tears , nor groans , nor curfes of the vanquished , follow acts of compaffion , and of charity but a fin- cere pleasure and ...
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... means the lives of fo many miserable men were faved , and a comfortable provifion made for their fubfiftence , who had otherwise perished , had not you been the companion of their mif- fortune : or rather sent by Providence , like ...
... means the lives of fo many miserable men were faved , and a comfortable provifion made for their fubfiftence , who had otherwise perished , had not you been the companion of their mif- fortune : or rather sent by Providence , like ...
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... means both the poets being fet in the fame light , and dressed in the fame English habit , story to be compared with ftory ... mean time , to follow the thread of my difcourfe ( as thoughts , according to Mr. Hobbes , have always fome ...
... means both the poets being fet in the fame light , and dressed in the fame English habit , story to be compared with ftory ... mean time , to follow the thread of my difcourfe ( as thoughts , according to Mr. Hobbes , have always fome ...
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... mean while , I take up Chaucer where I left him . He must have been a man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature , because , as it has been truly obferved of him , he has taken into the com- pafs of his Canterbury tales the various ...
... mean while , I take up Chaucer where I left him . He must have been a man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature , because , as it has been truly obferved of him , he has taken into the com- pafs of his Canterbury tales the various ...
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... mean not the goddess Diane , But Venus daughter , which that hight Danè : Which after a little confideration I knew was to be re- formed into this fenfe , that Daphne the daughter of Peneus was turned into a tree . I durft not make thus ...
... mean not the goddess Diane , But Venus daughter , which that hight Danè : Which after a little confideration I knew was to be re- formed into this fenfe , that Daphne the daughter of Peneus was turned into a tree . I durft not make thus ...
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Страница 242 - He wander'd on, unknowing where he went Lost in the wood, and all on love intent : The Day already half his race had run, And summon'd him to due repast at noon, But Love could feel no hunger but lu's own.
Страница 93 - Twas all it had, for windows there were none. The gate was adamant; eternal frame! Which, hew'd by Mars himself, from Indian quarries came, The labour of a god; and all along Tough iron plates were clench 'd to make it strong.
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Страница 43 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Страница 26 - One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way; but swept like a drag-net great and small.
Страница 66 - Till each with mortal hate his rival view'd; Now friends no more, nor walking hand in hand; But when they met, they made a surly stand; And glared like angry lions as they pass'd, And wish'd that every look might be their last.
Страница 239 - This noble youth to madness loved a dame Of high degree, Honoria was her name : Fair as the fairest, but of haughty mind, And fiercer than became so soft a kind ; Proud of her birth, (for equal she had none) The rest she scorn'd; but hated him alone.
Страница 32 - May I have leave to do myself the justice (since my enemies will do me none, and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so much as to be a Christian, or a moral man), may I have leave, I say...
Страница 132 - 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.