A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. Walsh. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Montague. HalifaxJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1793 |
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Page iii
... reason , n fellowship in the college . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to guess : had he thought himself injured he knew how to complain . It was not till the death of Cromwell , in 1658 , that he became a ...
... reason , n fellowship in the college . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to guess : had he thought himself injured he knew how to complain . It was not till the death of Cromwell , in 1658 , that he became a ...
Page viii
... justify them to you ; I know your's are far different . For the fame reason , I shall say nothing of my principles of state ; I believe you in your's follow the dictates your reafon , as I , in mine , do viii THE LIFE OF DRYDEN .
... justify them to you ; I know your's are far different . For the fame reason , I shall say nothing of my principles of state ; I believe you in your's follow the dictates your reafon , as I , in mine , do viii THE LIFE OF DRYDEN .
Page xii
... reason than quick fenfibility . Upon all occafions that were presented , he ftudied rather than felt , and produced fenti- ments not such as nature enforces , but meditation supplies . With the ample and elemental paffions , as they ...
... reason than quick fenfibility . Upon all occafions that were presented , he ftudied rather than felt , and produced fenti- ments not such as nature enforces , but meditation supplies . With the ample and elemental paffions , as they ...
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... reason ( I mean not of length , but broken action , tied too feverely to the laws of hiftory ) I am apt to agree with thofe , who rank Lucan , rather among histo- rians in verfe , than Epic poets : in whofe room , if I am not deceived ...
... reason ( I mean not of length , but broken action , tied too feverely to the laws of hiftory ) I am apt to agree with thofe , who rank Lucan , rather among histo- rians in verfe , than Epic poets : in whofe room , if I am not deceived ...
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... reason I fhould do you that juftice to the readers , to let them know , that , if there be any thing tolerable in this poem , they owe the argument to your choice , the writing to your encouragement , the correction to your judgment ...
... reason I fhould do you that juftice to the readers , to let them know , that , if there be any thing tolerable in this poem , they owe the argument to your choice , the writing to your encouragement , the correction to your judgment ...
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Page 73 - Babel, which if it were possible, as it is not, to reach heaven, would come to nothing by the confusion of the workmen. For every man is building a several...
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Page 45 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing 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. Bless'd madman ! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy!
Page 102 - Chase from our minds th' infernal foe, And peace, the fruit of love, bestow ; And, lest our feet should step astray, Protect and guide us in the way. Make us eternal truths receive, And practise all that we believe : Give us thyself, that we may see The Father, and the Son by thee.
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Page 181 - 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 383 - ... that verse commonly which they call golden, or two substantives and two adjectives, with a verb betwixt them to keep the peace.
Page 415 - Then old Age, and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to Death, and make him understand, After a search so painful, and so long, That all his Life he has been in the wrong.
Page 42 - Some had in courts been great, and thrown from thence , Like fiends, were harden'd in impenitence...
Page 54 - Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in: Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.