The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksPaterson, 1884 - English literature |
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... suffered in the exiled Thunderer's fate . The rabble now such freedom did enjoy , As winds at sea , that use it to destroy : Blind as the Cyclops , and as wild as he , They owned a lawless savage liberty , Like that our painted ...
... suffered in the exiled Thunderer's fate . The rabble now such freedom did enjoy , As winds at sea , that use it to destroy : Blind as the Cyclops , and as wild as he , They owned a lawless savage liberty , Like that our painted ...
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... suffering both regret and bless ! For , when his early valour heaven had crost , And all at Worc'ster but the honour lost ; + Forced into exile from his rightful throne , He made all countries where he came his own ; And , viewing ...
... suffering both regret and bless ! For , when his early valour heaven had crost , And all at Worc'ster but the honour lost ; + Forced into exile from his rightful throne , He made all countries where he came his own ; And , viewing ...
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... suffer ere he came to reign , No rash procedure will his actions stain : To business ripened by digestive thought , His future rule is into method brought ; As they who first proportion understand , With easy practice reach a master's ...
... suffer ere he came to reign , No rash procedure will his actions stain : To business ripened by digestive thought , His future rule is into method brought ; As they who first proportion understand , With easy practice reach a master's ...
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... Suffered to live , they are like Helots set , A virtuous shame within us to beget ; t soon suspicious of these too powerful allies , and leagued with the Venetians to cut off the retreat of the French from Naples . In 1594 he made a ...
... Suffered to live , they are like Helots set , A virtuous shame within us to beget ; t soon suspicious of these too powerful allies , and leagued with the Venetians to cut off the retreat of the French from Naples . In 1594 he made a ...
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... suffering , goodness , mercy , in his name . Your power to justice doth submit your cause , Your goodness only is above the laws ; † riage to the Most Illustrious Prince James Duke of York , etc. 1673 , " not only do dolphins dance ...
... suffering , goodness , mercy , in his name . Your power to justice doth submit your cause , Your goodness only is above the laws ; † riage to the Most Illustrious Prince James Duke of York , etc. 1673 , " not only do dolphins dance ...
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Page 76 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Page 47 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 259 - Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 47 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
Page 239 - A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 263 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, '°° Great Villiers lies...
Page 286 - Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
Page 306 - Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight of one brave man can do.
Page 148 - With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves : Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves.
Page 84 - Holland fleet, who, tir'il and done, Stretch'd on their decks, like weary oxen lie : Faint sweats all down their mighty members run, (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, • Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more.