The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's virgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... foul . To close the pomp , Æthon , the steed of state , Is led , the funerals of his lord to wait . 1314 Stripp'd of his tappings , with a fullen pace He walks , and the big tears run rolling down his face . The lance of Pallas , and ...
... foul . To close the pomp , Æthon , the steed of state , Is led , the funerals of his lord to wait . 1314 Stripp'd of his tappings , with a fullen pace He walks , and the big tears run rolling down his face . The lance of Pallas , and ...
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... foul the ftroke of fortune fled : Præfcious of ills , and leaving me behind , To drink the dregs of life by fate affign'd . Beyond the goal of nature I have gone ; My Pallas late fet out , but reach'd too soon . If , from my league ...
... foul the ftroke of fortune fled : Præfcious of ills , and leaving me behind , To drink the dregs of life by fate affign'd . Beyond the goal of nature I have gone ; My Pallas late fet out , but reach'd too soon . If , from my league ...
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... foul polluters of his bed enjoy . 415 The Gods have envy'd me the fweets of life , My much - lov'd country , and my more lov'd wife : Banish'd from both , I mourn ; while in the sky , Transform'd to birds , my loft companions fly : 420 ...
... foul polluters of his bed enjoy . 415 The Gods have envy'd me the fweets of life , My much - lov'd country , and my more lov'd wife : Banish'd from both , I mourn ; while in the sky , Transform'd to birds , my loft companions fly : 420 ...
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... on his bank appears . For that ' s as true as thy diffembled fears Of my revenge : difinifs that vanity , 630 Thou , Drances , art below a death from me . Let Let that vile foul in that vile body rest : 22 DRYDEN'S POE M S.
... on his bank appears . For that ' s as true as thy diffembled fears Of my revenge : difinifs that vanity , 630 Thou , Drances , art below a death from me . Let Let that vile foul in that vile body rest : 22 DRYDEN'S POE M S.
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Samuel Johnson. Let that vile foul in that vile body rest : The lodging is well worthy of the guest . Now , royal father , to the prefent state Of our affairs , and of this high debate ; If in your arms thus early you decide , And think ...
Samuel Johnson. Let that vile foul in that vile body rest : The lodging is well worthy of the guest . Now , royal father , to the prefent state Of our affairs , and of this high debate ; If in your arms thus early you decide , And think ...
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Seite 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words...
Seite 284 - And make the neighbouring monarchs fear their fate. He laughs at all the vulgar cares and fears ; At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears: An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned.
Seite 194 - This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice ; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice.
Seite 34 - And when, too closely press'd, she quits the ground, From her bent bow she sends a backward wound. Her maids, in martial pomp, on either side...
Seite 128 - I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it...
Seite 270 - The critic-dame, who at her table sits, Homer and Virgil quotes, and weighs their wits; And pities Dido's agonizing fits. She has so far th...
Seite 346 - Tis not, indeed, my talent to 'engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise...
Seite 105 - Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers, and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression.
Seite 193 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Seite 281 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.