 | Gregory G. Colomb - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...in MacFlecknoe. Dryden too had used mock-heroic periphrasis to make location a means of evaluation. Close to the Walls which fair Augusta bind (The fair Augusta much to fears inclin'd) An ancient fabrick rais'dt 'inform the sight, There stood of yore, and Barbican it... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...1 1 The rest to some faint meaning make pretense, But Shnever deviates into sense. 12 Here stopped dullness he was made. 13 High on a throne of his own labors reared. At his right hand our young Ascanius... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...bore, And vowed he ne'er would act Villerius more." Here stopped the good old sire, and wept for joy 60 In silent raptures of the hopeful boy. All arguments, but most his plays, persuade. That for anointed dullness he was made. Close to the walls which fair Augusta bind, (The fair Augusta much to fears inclin'd)... | |
 | James E. Gill - English literature - 1995 - 468 pages
...mock-archaic Spenserian diction to portray the sexually corrupt and effeminate character of this nursery: Close to the Walls which fair Augusta bind, (The fair Augusta much to fears inclin'd) An ancient fabrick, rais'd t'inform the sight, There stood of yore, and Barbican it... | |
 | Cynthia Wall - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 308 pages
...the sermons, and the maps - of underpinning the new with the old and negonating the new by the old: Close to the Walls which fair Augusta bind, (The fair Augusta much to fears inclm'd) An ancient fabnck, rais'd t' inform the sight, There stood of yore, and Barbisan it... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...And vowed he ne'er would act Villerius more.'*J Here stopped the good old sire, and wept for joy 60 In silent raptures of the hopeful boy. All arguments, but most his plays, persuade That for anointed dullness; he was made. Close to the walls which fair Augusta bind* (The fair Augusta, much to fears... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...And vowed he ne'er would act Villerius more.'0 Here stopped the good old sire, and wept for joy 60 In silent raptures of the hopeful boy. All arguments, but most his plays, persuade, That for anointed dullness he was made. Close to the walls which fair Augusta bind,0 (The fair Augusta much to fears... | |
 | W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 pages
...lute and sword which he in triumph bore, And vowed he ne'er would act Villerius more.' Here stopped the good old sire; and wept for joy, In silent raptures...which fair Augusta bind, (The fair Augusta much to fears inclin'd) An ancient fabric raised t'inform the sight, There stood of yore, and Barbican it hight:... | |
 | Aaron Santesso - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 230 pages
...passages in Mac Flecknoe is the mournful description of the crumbling Barbican tower: An ancient fabrick, rais'd t' inform the sight, There stood of yore, and Barbican it hight: A watch Tower once; but now, so Fate ordains, Of all the Pile an empty name remains. (66-69)... | |
 | John Dryden - Poetry - 2002 - 612 pages
...lute and sword which he in triumph bore And vowed he ne'er would act Villerius more.' 60 Here stopped the good old sire, and wept for joy In silent raptures...arguments, but most his plays, persuade That for anointed dullness he was made. Close to the walls which fair Augusta bind 65 (The fair Augusta much to fears... | |
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A watchtower once ; but now, so fate ordains. Of all the pile an empty name remains. From its... 
