The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... state , And man , the tyrant of our fex , I hate , A lowly fervant , but a lofty mate ; Where love is duty on the female fide ; On their's mere fenfual gust , and sought with furly pride . Now by thy triple shape , as thou art seen In ...
... state , And man , the tyrant of our fex , I hate , A lowly fervant , but a lofty mate ; Where love is duty on the female fide ; On their's mere fenfual gust , and sought with furly pride . Now by thy triple shape , as thou art seen In ...
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... state ; There , for the two contending knights he fent : Arm'd cap - a - pee , with reverence low they bent ; He fmil'd on both , and with superior look Alike their offer'd adoration took . The people prefs on every fide , to see Their ...
... state ; There , for the two contending knights he fent : Arm'd cap - a - pee , with reverence low they bent ; He fmil'd on both , and with superior look Alike their offer'd adoration took . The people prefs on every fide , to see Their ...
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... state , Patch an old building , not a new create . Arcite is doom'd to die in all his pride , Muft leave his youth , and yield his beauteous bride , Gain'd hardly , against right , and unenjoy'd . When ' twas declar'd all hope of life ...
... state , Patch an old building , not a new create . Arcite is doom'd to die in all his pride , Muft leave his youth , and yield his beauteous bride , Gain'd hardly , against right , and unenjoy'd . When ' twas declar'd all hope of life ...
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... youthful lover's fate , When juft approaching to the nuptial state . But , like a low - hung cloud , it rains fo faft , That all at once it falls , and cannot laft . The The face of things is chang'd , and Athens now 128 DRYDEN'S POEM S.
... youthful lover's fate , When juft approaching to the nuptial state . But , like a low - hung cloud , it rains fo faft , That all at once it falls , and cannot laft . The The face of things is chang'd , and Athens now 128 DRYDEN'S POEM S.
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... state , With tears lament the knight's untimely fate . Nor greater grief in falling Troy was feen For Hector's death ; but Hector was not then . Old men with duft deform'd their hoary hair , The women beat their breafts , their cheeks ...
... state , With tears lament the knight's untimely fate . Nor greater grief in falling Troy was feen For Hector's death ; but Hector was not then . Old men with duft deform'd their hoary hair , The women beat their breafts , their cheeks ...
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Страница 32 - Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks, and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns; 'for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
Страница 27 - ... for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded, not from any want of knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only...
Страница 252 - Twas time enough at last on Death to call, The precipice in sight : a shrub was all, That kindly stood betwixt to break the fatal fall. One maid she had...
Страница 95 - 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.
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 230 - The diff'rence that distinguished man from man. He claim'd no title from descent of blood, But that which made him noble, made him good. Warm'd with more particles of heavenly flame, He wing'd his upward flight, and soar'd to fame ; The rest remain'd below, a tribe without a name.
Страница 26 - He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets...
Страница 31 - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Страница 26 - 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...
Страница 69 - Of fortune, fate, or Providence complain? God gives us what he knows our wants require, And better things than those which we desire...