The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksWilliam Patterson, 1892 |
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... troops from universal sway ? Then will they stretch their power athwart the land , 195 And either sea from side to side command . Receive our offered faith , and give us thine ; Ours is a generous and experienced line : We want not ...
... troops from universal sway ? Then will they stretch their power athwart the land , 195 And either sea from side to side command . Receive our offered faith , and give us thine ; Ours is a generous and experienced line : We want not ...
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... troops , now mustered on the strand , My counsel shall submit to your command . Their navy swarms upon the coasts ; they cry To hoist their anchors , but the gods deny . An ancient augur , skilled in future fate , 650 With these ...
... troops , now mustered on the strand , My counsel shall submit to your command . Their navy swarms upon the coasts ; they cry To hoist their anchors , but the gods deny . An ancient augur , skilled in future fate , 650 With these ...
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... troops , prepare your perjured arms . ' He said , and , rising from his homely throne , The solemn rites of Hercules begun , And on his altars waked the sleeping fires ; Then cheerful to his household gods retires ; There offers chosen ...
... troops , prepare your perjured arms . ' He said , and , rising from his homely throne , The solemn rites of Hercules begun , And on his altars waked the sleeping fires ; Then cheerful to his household gods retires ; There offers chosen ...
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... troops , drawn up in beautiful array , O'er heathy plains pursue the ready way . Repeated peals of shouts are heard around ; The neighing coursers answer to the sound , And shake with horny hoofs the solid ground . A greenwood shade ...
... troops , drawn up in beautiful array , O'er heathy plains pursue the ready way . Repeated peals of shouts are heard around ; The neighing coursers answer to the sound , And shake with horny hoofs the solid ground . A greenwood shade ...
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... games Projected for the rape of Sabine dames . The pit resounds with shrieks ; a war succeeds , For breach of public faith , and unexampled deeds . 840 845 Here for revenge the Sabine troops contend ; The BOOK VIII . 25 ENEÏS .
... games Projected for the rape of Sabine dames . The pit resounds with shrieks ; a war succeeds , For breach of public faith , and unexampled deeds . 840 845 Here for revenge the Sabine troops contend ; The BOOK VIII . 25 ENEÏS .
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Æneas ancients appear Arcadian Aristotle arms Ascanius audience Ausonian bear Ben Jonson betwixt blank verse blood breast comedy coursers Crites dare dart death Dryden edition English Eugenius eyes falchion fame fatal fate father fault favour fear field fierce fight fire flames flies flood foes fool force French friends goddess gods grace ground hand haste head heaven hero honour humour Jonson Jove Juturna king labour lance Latian Lausus Lisideius Lord Messapus Mezentius mind Mnestheus muse nature never numbers o'er Pallas passions peace persons plain play pleased plot poem poesy poet poetry prince rage rest rhyme Rutulians satire scene Sejanus sense Shakespeare shield sight Silent Woman Sir Robert Howard sire slain Sophocles soul sound spear stage sword Tarchon thee thou thought town tragedy trembling Trojan troops Turnus Tuscan Virgil vows winds words wound writ write youth
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الصفحة 344 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
الصفحة 293 - Is it not evident, in these last hundred years, (when the study of philosophy has been the business of all the virtuosi in Christendom) that almost a new nature has been revealed to us...
الصفحة 324 - ... the hero of the other side is to drive in before him; or to see a duel fought and one slain with two or three thrusts of the foils, which we know are so blunted that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them. "I have observed that in all our tragedies the audience cannot forbear laughing when the actors are to die; 'tis the most comic part of the whole play.
الصفحة 338 - He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such to-day, as other plays should be ; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas...
الصفحة 346 - Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe ; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection ; what words have since been taken in are rather superfluous than ornamental.
الصفحة 285 - After they had attentively listened, till such time as the sound by little and little went from them, Eugenius, lifting up his head and taking notice of it, was the first who congratulated to the rest that happy omen of our nation's victory, adding that we had but this to desire in confirmation of it, that we might hear no more of that noise which was now leaving the English coast.
الصفحة 159 - Thus while he spoke, unmindful of defence, A winged arrow struck the pious prince. But, whether from some human hand it came, Or hostile god, is left unknown by fame ; No human hand, or hostile god, was found, 485 To boast the triumph of so base a wound. When Turnus saw the Trojan quit the plain, His chiefs dismay'd, his troops a fainting train, Th...
الصفحة 332 - A continued gravity keeps the spirit too much bent; we must refresh it sometimes, as we bait in a journey, that we may go on with greater ease.
الصفحة 296 - ... that the time of the feigned action, or fable of the play, should be proportioned as near as can be to the duration of that time in which it is represented...
الصفحة 299 - I can never see one of those plays which are now written, but it increases my admiration of the ancients. And yet I must acknowledge further, that to admire them as we ought, we should understand them better than we do.