The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 9A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... hopes of justice and liberty returning with the lawful king . The tone of praise , which Dryden has adopted , exhibits his usual felicity . There do not here occur any of those rants about the antiquity of the royal line , + and the ...
... hopes of justice and liberty returning with the lawful king . The tone of praise , which Dryden has adopted , exhibits his usual felicity . There do not here occur any of those rants about the antiquity of the royal line , + and the ...
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... hope and expectation of their future happi- ness . The poet was perhaps sensible , that the claim of loyal me- rit was rather new in his family and person , and ought not there- fore to be expressed with the extravagant colouring of the ...
... hope and expectation of their future happi- ness . The poet was perhaps sensible , that the claim of loyal me- rit was rather new in his family and person , and ought not there- fore to be expressed with the extravagant colouring of the ...
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... hope their bold attempt , Who ruin'd crowns , would coronets exempt : For when , by their designing leaders taught To strike at power , which for themselves they sought , The vulgar , gull'd into rebellion , arm'd , Their blood to ...
... hope their bold attempt , Who ruin'd crowns , would coronets exempt : For when , by their designing leaders taught To strike at power , which for themselves they sought , The vulgar , gull'd into rebellion , arm'd , Their blood to ...
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... hope prevent , But stay'd , and suffer'd fortuneto repent . These virtues Galba in a stranger sought , And Piso to adopted empire brought . † How shall I then my doubtful thoughts express , That must his sufferings both regret and bless ...
... hope prevent , But stay'd , and suffer'd fortuneto repent . These virtues Galba in a stranger sought , And Piso to adopted empire brought . † How shall I then my doubtful thoughts express , That must his sufferings both regret and bless ...
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... hopes alone , Create that joy , but full fruition . We know those blessings , which we must possess , And judge of future by past happiness . No promise can oblige a prince so much Still to be good , as long to have been such . A noble ...
... hopes alone , Create that joy , but full fruition . We know those blessings , which we must possess , And judge of future by past happiness . No promise can oblige a prince so much Still to be good , as long to have been such . A noble ...
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Page 222 - 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 ; JOHN DRYDEN Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 234 - He laughed himself from Court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief : For spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel...
Page 234 - 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. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
Page 86 - Holland fleet, who, tir'd 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.
Page 49 - 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 217 - Michal, of royal blood, the crown did wear, A soil ungrateful to the tiller's care : Not so the rest ; for several mothers bore To god-like David several sons before : But since like slaves his bed they did ascend, No true succession could their seed attend.
Page 275 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
Page 217 - 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 270 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Page 222 - In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state...