The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Band 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... Lord Has- tings , a young nobleman of great learning , and much beloved , called forth no less than ninety- eight elegies , one of which was written by our poet , then about eighteen years old . They were published in 1650 , under the ...
... Lord Has- tings , a young nobleman of great learning , and much beloved , called forth no less than ninety- eight elegies , one of which was written by our poet , then about eighteen years old . They were published in 1650 , under the ...
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... Lord Hastings , the lines prefixed to " Sion and Par- nassus , " and some complimentary stanzas which occur in a letter to his cousin Honor Driden , would have been enough to assure us , even with- out his own testimony , that Cowley ...
... Lord Hastings , the lines prefixed to " Sion and Par- nassus , " and some complimentary stanzas which occur in a letter to his cousin Honor Driden , would have been enough to assure us , even with- out his own testimony , that Cowley ...
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... lord at strife , Thus made an insurrection ' gainst his life . Or were these gems sent to adorn his skin , The cabinet of a richer soul within ? No comet need foretel his change drew on , Whose corpse might seem a constellation . " This ...
... lord at strife , Thus made an insurrection ' gainst his life . Or were these gems sent to adorn his skin , The cabinet of a richer soul within ? No comet need foretel his change drew on , Whose corpse might seem a constellation . " This ...
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... lord chamberlain of the Protector's * Sir John Pickering , father of Sir Gilbert , married Susan , the sister of Erasmus Dryden , the poet's father . But Mary Pickering , the poet's mother , was niece to Sir John Pickering ; and thus ...
... lord chamberlain of the Protector's * Sir John Pickering , father of Sir Gilbert , married Susan , the sister of Erasmus Dryden , the poet's father . But Mary Pickering , the poet's mother , was niece to Sir John Pickering ; and thus ...
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... lord - chamberlain of the Protector's household or court ; so that he may well be counted fit and worthy to be taken out of the House to have a negative voice in the other House , though he helped to destroy it in the king and lords ...
... lord - chamberlain of the Protector's household or court ; so that he may well be counted fit and worthy to be taken out of the House to have a negative voice in the other House , though he helped to destroy it in the king and lords ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 170 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Seite 169 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Seite 311 - Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Seite 313 - But, gracious God ! how well dost thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the' abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.
Seite 189 - His style is boisterous and rough-hewn, his rhyme incorrigibly lewd, and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill-sounding. The little talent which he has, is fancy. He sometimes labours with a thought ; but, with the pudder he makes to bring it into the world...
Seite 123 - I boldly answer him that an heroic poet is not tied to a bare representation of what is true, or exceeding probable : but that he may let himself loose to visionary objects, and to the representation of such things as, depending not on sense and therefore not to be comprehended by knowledge, may give him a freer scope for imagination.
Seite 447 - Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage ; and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment.
Seite 111 - Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.
Seite 8 - England* began first that language; all our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court which could not parley Euphuism...
Seite 473 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.