| John Dryden - 1901 - 384 pages
...ill supply. 7i In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or shipwrecked labour to some distant shore, Or in dark churches walk among the dead; They wake with horror and dare sleep no more. 72 The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their maintop joyful news they... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 pages
...supply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, 30 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.' It is a general rule in poetry that. all appropriated tenns_ of art should be sunk... | |
| Arthur Woollgar Verrall - 1914 - 322 pages
...nightmare : — In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or shipwrack'd labour to some distant shore, Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror and dare sleep no more. (71) Dryden is not insensible to the pathos of war, and gives his compassion to Dutch... | |
| John Dryden - 1915 - 84 pages
...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. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in... | |
| Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 pages
...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. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in... | |
| H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...colloquial and technical terms, articulating, as Wimsatt emphasizes, an authoritative universalist standard: 'It is a general rule in poetry that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions, because poetry is to speak an universal language' (Lives, I,... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...supply.) 280 In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwrecked, labour to some distant shore, Or in dark churches walk among the dead: They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. Second day's battle The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their maintop... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...distant shore : Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead ; They wake with horrour, and dare sleep DO more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms art should be sunk in general expressions, because poetry speak an universal language. This rule is... | |
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