The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3W. Pickering, 1832 |
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... And let mankind agree ; Better the world were fast asleep , Than kept awake by thee . The fools are only thinner , With all our cost and care ; 30 50 55 55 60 65 But neither side a winner , For things are as OF DRYDEN . 23.
... And let mankind agree ; Better the world were fast asleep , Than kept awake by thee . The fools are only thinner , With all our cost and care ; 30 50 55 55 60 65 But neither side a winner , For things are as OF DRYDEN . 23.
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John Dryden. But neither side a winner , For things are as they were . CHORUS OF ALL . The fools are only , & c . Enter VENUS . VENUS . Calms appear when storms are past ; Love will have his hour at last : Nature is my kindly care ; Mars ...
John Dryden. But neither side a winner , For things are as they were . CHORUS OF ALL . The fools are only , & c . Enter VENUS . VENUS . Calms appear when storms are past ; Love will have his hour at last : Nature is my kindly care ; Mars ...
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... things : But Shakespeare's power is sacred as a king's . Those legends from old priesthood were received , And he then writ , as people then believed . But if for Shakespeare we your grace implore , We for our theatre shall want it more ...
... things : But Shakespeare's power is sacred as a king's . Those legends from old priesthood were received , And he then writ , as people then believed . But if for Shakespeare we your grace implore , We for our theatre shall want it more ...
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... things to say , That he's more wit than any man i̇ ' th ' play : But of so ill a mingle with the rest , As when a parrot's taught to break a jest . Thus , aiming to be fine , they make a show , As tawdry squires in country churches do ...
... things to say , That he's more wit than any man i̇ ' th ' play : But of so ill a mingle with the rest , As when a parrot's taught to break a jest . Thus , aiming to be fine , they make a show , As tawdry squires in country churches do ...
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John Dryden. 35 40 Things well consider'd , ' tis so hard to make A comedy , which should the knowing take , That our dull poet , in despair to please , Does humbly beg , by me , his writ of ease . ' Tis a land - tax , which he's too ...
John Dryden. 35 40 Things well consider'd , ' tis so hard to make A comedy , which should the knowing take , That our dull poet , in despair to please , Does humbly beg , by me , his writ of ease . ' Tis a land - tax , which he's too ...
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Page 17 - 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.
Page 17 - See the Furies arise! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Page 4 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 16 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
Page 4 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Page 13 - And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above — Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant spires he rode, When he to fair Olympia...
Page 186 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Page 12 - TwAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 183 - I have endeavoured to choose such fables, both ancient and modern, as contain in each of them some instructive moral ; which I could prove by induction, but the way is tedious ; and they leap foremost into sight, without the reader's trouble of looking after them. I wish I could affirm with a safe conscience, that I had taken the same care in all my former writings...
Page 14 - 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...