The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Volume 9William Miller, 1808 - English literature |
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... actions are But thinly scattered , here and there ; At best , but all one single star ; But thine the milky way ; All one continued light of undistinguished day . They thronged so close , that nought else could be seen , Scarce any ...
... actions are But thinly scattered , here and there ; At best , but all one single star ; But thine the milky way ; All one continued light of undistinguished day . They thronged so close , that nought else could be seen , Scarce any ...
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... action by the prize was warmed . The sacred purple , then , and scarlet gown , Like sanguine dye to elephants , was shewn . † Thus , when the bold Typhous scaled the sky , And forced great Jove from his own heaven to fly , ( What king ...
... action by the prize was warmed . The sacred purple , then , and scarlet gown , Like sanguine dye to elephants , was shewn . † Thus , when the bold Typhous scaled the sky , And forced great Jove from his own heaven to fly , ( What king ...
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... actions stain : To business ripened by digestive thought , His future rule is into method brought ; As they , who ... action leave to busy chronicles : Such , whose supine felicity but makes In story chasms , in epochat mistakes ; O ...
... actions stain : To business ripened by digestive thought , His future rule is into method brought ; As they , who ... action leave to busy chronicles : Such , whose supine felicity but makes In story chasms , in epochat mistakes ; O ...
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... action we betake , It shuns the mint , like gold that chemists make . * How hard was then his task , at once to be What in the body natural we see ! Man's architect distinctly did ordain The charge of muscles , nerves , and of the brain ...
... action we betake , It shuns the mint , like gold that chemists make . * How hard was then his task , at once to be What in the body natural we see ! Man's architect distinctly did ordain The charge of muscles , nerves , and of the brain ...
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... actions still must be maintained with good , As bodies nourished with resembling food . You have already quenched sedition's brand ; And zeal , which burnt it , only warms the land . The jealous sects , that dare not trust their cause ...
... actions still must be maintained with good , As bodies nourished with resembling food . You have already quenched sedition's brand ; And zeal , which burnt it , only warms the land . The jealous sects , that dare not trust their cause ...
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Page 80 - And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Page 271 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : 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 202 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own. Yet fame deserved, no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access.
Page 50 - And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock : and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts : but my face shall not be seen.
Page 50 - And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 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 246 - tis to rule; for that's a monarch's end. They call my tenderness of blood, my fear: Though manly tempers can the longest bear.
Page 194 - But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
Page 190 - And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
Page 218 - Promiscuous use of concubine and bride ; Then Israel's monarch after heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves ; and wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.
Page 223 - In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state...