The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 - English literature |
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... less ; So in your verse a native sweetness dwells , Which shames composure , * and its art excells . Singing no more can your soft numbers grace , Than paint adds charms unto a beauteous face . † Yet as when mighty rivers gently creep ...
... less ; So in your verse a native sweetness dwells , Which shames composure , * and its art excells . Singing no more can your soft numbers grace , Than paint adds charms unto a beauteous face . † Yet as when mighty rivers gently creep ...
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... less Your kindness great Achilles doth confess ; Who , dressed by Statius in too bold a look , Did ill become those virgin robes he took . † To understand how much we owe to you , We must your numbers , with your author's , view : Then ...
... less Your kindness great Achilles doth confess ; Who , dressed by Statius in too bold a look , Did ill become those virgin robes he took . † To understand how much we owe to you , We must your numbers , with your author's , view : Then ...
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... less The prophet than the poet doth confess . Ere our weak eyes discerned the doubtful streak Of light , you saw great Charles his morning break : † So skilful seamen ken the land from far , Which shows like mists to the dull passenger ...
... less The prophet than the poet doth confess . Ere our weak eyes discerned the doubtful streak Of light , you saw great Charles his morning break : † So skilful seamen ken the land from far , Which shows like mists to the dull passenger ...
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... less ardent mind would have been discouraged from in- vestigations , attended neither by fame nor profit . These essays were upon physical , philosophical , and moral subjects . After the Restoration , Charleton published the work upon ...
... less ardent mind would have been discouraged from in- vestigations , attended neither by fame nor profit . These essays were upon physical , philosophical , and moral subjects . After the Restoration , Charleton published the work upon ...
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... less in nature seen , Than his great brother , read in states and men . The circling streams , once thought but pools , of blood , ( Whether life's fuel , or the body's food , ) From dark oblivion Harvey's || name shall save ; While Ent ...
... less in nature seen , Than his great brother , read in states and men . The circling streams , once thought but pools , of blood , ( Whether life's fuel , or the body's food , ) From dark oblivion Harvey's || name shall save ; While Ent ...
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Page 183 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride : — Happy, happy, happy pair ! None but the brave None but the brave None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 160 - 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.
Page 186 - Revolving in his altered soul The various turns of Chance below ; And, now and then, a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
Page 169 - Sharp violins proclaim Their jealous pangs and desperation, Fury, frantic indignation, Depth of pains and height of passion For the fair disdainful dame.
Page 316 - But whither went his soul, let such relate Who search the secrets of the future state : Divines can say but what themselves believe ; Strong proofs they have, but not demonstrative ; For, were all plain, then all sides must agree, And faith itself be lost in certainty. To live uprightly, then, is sure the best ; To save ourselves, and not to damn the rest.
Page 170 - To all the blessed 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.
Page 62 - Thou shalt be seen (Though with some short parenthesis between) High on the throne of wit; and seated there, Not mine (that's little) but thy laurel wear. Thy first attempt an early promise made; That early promise this has more than paid. So bold, yet so judiciously you dare, That your least praise is to be regular. Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Page 190 - CREATOR spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come visit every pious mind ; Come pour thy joys on human kind ; From sin and sorrow set us free, And make thy temples worthy thee.
Page 185 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain...
Page 191 - 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. Make us eternal truths receive, And practise all that we believe : Give us thyself, that we may see The Father, and the Son, by thee. Immortal honour, endless fame, Attend the...