Bell's Edition, Volumes 41-42J. Bell, 1777 - English poetry |
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... fire the resentment of Rochester , who was naturally envious . In order to hurt the character , and shake the intereft of this no- ble poet , he recommended Crown , an obscure man , to write a masque for the Court , which was Dry- den's ...
... fire the resentment of Rochester , who was naturally envious . In order to hurt the character , and shake the intereft of this no- ble poet , he recommended Crown , an obscure man , to write a masque for the Court , which was Dry- den's ...
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... fires , & c . in all parts of London . The poem is intro- duced with a very satirical epistle to the Whigs , in which the author says , " I have one favour to desire 66 you at parting , that when you think of answering this poem , you ...
... fires , & c . in all parts of London . The poem is intro- duced with a very satirical epistle to the Whigs , in which the author says , " I have one favour to desire 66 you at parting , that when you think of answering this poem , you ...
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... fire , in full force to the last . Mr. Pope , in his preface to Homer , says , if Dryden had lived to finish what he began of Homer , he ( Mr. Pope ) would not have attempted it after him , " no " more ( says he ) than I would his ...
... fire , in full force to the last . Mr. Pope , in his preface to Homer , says , if Dryden had lived to finish what he began of Homer , he ( Mr. Pope ) would not have attempted it after him , " no " more ( says he ) than I would his ...
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... fire and ima- gination as well as in judgment : witness hisOde on St. Cecilia's Day , and his Fables , his latest per- " formances . He was equally excellent in verse and Volume I. f CC ઃઃ C 66 prose ; his prose had all the clearness ...
... fire and ima- gination as well as in judgment : witness hisOde on St. Cecilia's Day , and his Fables , his latest per- " formances . He was equally excellent in verse and Volume I. f CC ઃઃ C 66 prose ; his prose had all the clearness ...
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... fire Of poets ' souls did long ago expire ; Of folly or of madness did accuse The wretch that thought himself possest with muse ; Laugh'd at the God within that did inspire 5 With more than human thoughts the tuneful quire . But sure ...
... fire Of poets ' souls did long ago expire ; Of folly or of madness did accuse The wretch that thought himself possest with muse ; Laugh'd at the God within that did inspire 5 With more than human thoughts the tuneful quire . But sure ...
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Page 109 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Page 105 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Page 106 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain: Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 102 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes ! Sound the trumpets, beat the...
Page 105 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Page 28 - Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! While at each change the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And the world's victor stood subdued by sound ! The power of music all our hearts allow, And what Timotheus was, is DRYDEN now.
Page 171 - That every man, with him, was god or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late: He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Page 107 - Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 170 - 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...
Page 172 - Thus, heaping wealth, by the most ready way Among the Jews, which was to cheat and pray; The city, to reward his pious hate Against his master, chose him magistrate: His hand a vare of justice did uphold; His neck was loaded with a chain of gold.