The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1J. W. Parker and Son, 1854 - English poetry |
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... to the ordinary test of common sense . He held rhyme to be unnatural in dialogue intended to reflect the language of real life , simply because in real life people do not talk in rhyme . It is true , people 32 JOHN DRYDEN .
... to the ordinary test of common sense . He held rhyme to be unnatural in dialogue intended to reflect the language of real life , simply because in real life people do not talk in rhyme . It is true , people 32 JOHN DRYDEN .
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... common firmness to resist . His biographers have collected few facts to enlighten us on this subject . They seem to have taken it for granted , that he who had renounced the Commonwealth , and changed his religion , was hardly en ...
... common firmness to resist . His biographers have collected few facts to enlighten us on this subject . They seem to have taken it for granted , that he who had renounced the Commonwealth , and changed his religion , was hardly en ...
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... no grandeur , even of the grandiloquent kind , in the treatment ; the person- ages were not only common place , but contemporaneous , I. DRYDEN . 4 which doubly prohibited the employment of a highly coloured style JOHN DRYDEN . 41.
... no grandeur , even of the grandiloquent kind , in the treatment ; the person- ages were not only common place , but contemporaneous , I. DRYDEN . 4 which doubly prohibited the employment of a highly coloured style JOHN DRYDEN . 41.
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... from day to day , recording incidents as they happened , it is calculated to shake very materially the reader's confidence in the integrity of the writer . even of a more desperate character , are common to 46 JOHN DRYDEN .
... from day to day , recording incidents as they happened , it is calculated to shake very materially the reader's confidence in the integrity of the writer . even of a more desperate character , are common to 46 JOHN DRYDEN .
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John Dryden Robert Bell. even of a more desperate character , are common to all com- munities . We can find some palliation in the sudden excite- ment and heat of blood for the murder of Mr. Scroop , who was stabbed in the theatre , in ...
John Dryden Robert Bell. even of a more desperate character , are common to all com- munities . We can find some palliation in the sudden excite- ment and heat of blood for the murder of Mr. Scroop , who was stabbed in the theatre , in ...
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Absalom and Achitophel afterwards Annus Mirabilis appears arms beauty blessed bold Canons-Ashby Charles Charles II Cheaper Edition court crimes Cromwell crowd crown David's death Duchess Duchess of Portsmouth Duke of Guise Duke of Monmouth Duke of York Dutch Earl English Essay eyes faction fame fate father favour fear fight fire flames fleet foes fortune friends Gilbert Pickering grace happy haste heaven heroic honour Jebusites JOHN DRYDEN Johnson kind king king's labour Lady land laws letter lines Lord Mac Flecknoe Malone marriage mighty monarch Monmouth muse nature ne'er never noble numbers o'er once panegyric passage person play plot poem poet poetry Pope portrait praise prince prose published reign religion rest Restoration rhyme royal ruin sacred satire says Shadwell Sir Robert Howard soul stanza stars suffer thou thought throne translation verse Virgil virtue winds words write written
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Page 238 - 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...
Page 238 - 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.
Page 238 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 250 - 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: Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Page 232 - IN pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man on many multiplied his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd; When nature prompted, and no law denied...
Page 243 - Or change his right, for arbitrary sway? Let haughty Pharaoh curse with such a reign, His fruitful Nile, and yoke a servile train. If David's rule Jerusalem displease, The Dog-star heats their brains to this disease.
Page 249 - Some of their chiefs were princes of the land ; In the first rank of these did Zimri ' stand, 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 chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 233 - 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 193 - The diligence of trades and noiseful gain, And luxury more late, asleep were laid : All was the Night's ; and in her silent reign No sound the rest of Nature did invade.
Page 62 - If they will consider me as a man who has done my best to improve the language, and especially the poetry, and will be content with my acquiescence under the present government, and forbearing satire on it, that I can promise, because I can perform it : but I can neither take the oaths, nor forsake my religion; because I know not what church to go to, if...