The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksW. Paterson, 1892 |
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... Trembling with rage , the Latian youth prepare To join the allies , and headlong rush to war . Fierce Ufens , and Messapus , led the crowd , With bold Mezentius , who blasphemed aloud . These through the country took their wasteful ...
... Trembling with rage , the Latian youth prepare To join the allies , and headlong rush to war . Fierce Ufens , and Messapus , led the crowd , With bold Mezentius , who blasphemed aloud . These through the country took their wasteful ...
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... trembling light , * 35 The glittering species † here and there divide , And cast their dubious beams from side to side ; Now on the walls , now on the pavement play , And to the ceiling flash the glaring day . ' Twas night ; and weary ...
... trembling light , * 35 The glittering species † here and there divide , And cast their dubious beams from side to side ; Now on the walls , now on the pavement play , And to the ceiling flash the glaring day . ' Twas night ; and weary ...
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... Trembling he springs , As terror had increased his feet with wings ; Nor stayed for stairs ; but down the depth he threw His body , on his back the door he drew ( The door , a rib of living rock ; with pains His father hewed it out ...
... Trembling he springs , As terror had increased his feet with wings ; Nor stayed for stairs ; but down the depth he threw His body , on his back the door he drew ( The door , a rib of living rock ; with pains His father hewed it out ...
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... trembling Tiber dived beneath his bed . The court of Cacus stands revealed to sight ; The cavern glares with new - admitted light . So the pent vapours , with a rumbling sound , Heave from below , and rend the hollow ground ; A sounding ...
... trembling Tiber dived beneath his bed . The court of Cacus stands revealed to sight ; The cavern glares with new - admitted light . So the pent vapours , with a rumbling sound , Heave from below , and rend the hollow ground ; A sounding ...
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... Trembling he spoke ; and , eager of her charms , He snatched the willing goddess to his arms ; Till , in her lap infused , he lay possessed Of full desire , and sunk to pleasing rest . Now when the night her middle race had rode , And ...
... Trembling he spoke ; and , eager of her charms , He snatched the willing goddess to his arms ; Till , in her lap infused , he lay possessed Of full desire , and sunk to pleasing rest . Now when the night her middle race had rode , And ...
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الصفحة 346 - 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 326 - ... 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 284 - The drift of the ensuing discourse was chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them.
الصفحة 295 - ... every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies : the work then being pushed on by many hands, must of necessity go forward.
الصفحة 287 - 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 334 - 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 348 - 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 necessary.
الصفحة 298 - ... 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 371 - I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing betwixt what is nearest to the nature of comedy, which is the imitation of common persons and ordinary speaking, and what is nearest the nature of a serious play: this last is, indeed, the representation of Nature, but 'tis Nature wrought up to a higher pitch.
الصفحة 345 - First, That we have many Plays of ours as regular as any of theirs; and which, besides, have more variety of Plot and Characters: And secondly, that in most of the irregular Plays of Shakespeare or Fletcher, (for Ben. Johnson's are for the most part regular) there is a more masculine fancy and greater spirit in the writing, than there is in any of the French.