The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 4 |
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Achelous Achilles Ajax Alcyone arms Baucis and Philemon bear behold betray'd betwixt bless'd blood breast breath bride call'd cast Centaur Ceyx Cinyras coursers cried crime crown'd Cymon dame death decree design'd E'en earth eyes face fair fame fate father fear feast fields fight fill'd fire fix'd flame fled forc'd gods grace grief ground hand haste head heard heart heaven honour impious Iphis join'd Jove kind king knew ladies Lelex light liv'd living look'd lov'd Lysimachus maid METAMORPHOSES mind mix'd Mopsus Myrrha night nymph o'er once Ovid pain pass'd perform'd Pirithous plac'd plain pleas'd poet prepar'd press'd prey Priam pursu'd Pygmalion queen rage rais'd receiv'd resolv'd rest Rhodian seas secret seem'd seiz'd shade shore sight sire slain soul steed stood sweet Synalepha Tancred tears Telethusa thee Theseus thou thought took trembling turn'd Twas vows wife wind wound youth
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Page 104 - Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand ; This was the morn when, issuing on the guard, Drawn up in rank and file they stood prepared Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
Page 103 - The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; Mouths without hands, maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence : Stout once a month they march, a blust'ring band ; And ever, but in times of need, at hand...
Page 300 - But suffer inmate souls secure to dwell, Lest from their seats your parents you expel ; With rabid hunger feed upon your kind, Or from a beast dislodge a brother's mind.
Page 14 - They saw, and thitherward they bent their way : To this both knights and dames their homage made, And due obeisance to the daisy paid. And then the band of flutes began to play, To which a lady sung a virelay ; And still at every close she would repeat The burden of the song,
Page 125 - Before the seas, and this terrestrial ball, And heaven's high canopy that covers all, One was the face of Nature ; if a face ; Rather a rude and indigested mass ; A lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, Of jarring seeds, and justly Chaos named.
Page 46 - The senseless plea of right by Providence Was, by a flattering priest, invented since, And lasts no longer than the present sway ; But justifies the next who comes in play. The people's right remains ; let those who dare, Dispute their power, when they the judges are. He join'd not in their choice, because he knew Worse might, and often did, from change ensue. Much to himself he thought, but little spoke ; And, undeprived, his benefice forsook.
Page 32 - And bade the crier cite the criminal. The knight appear'd; and silence they proclaim: Then first the culprit answer'd to his name: And, after forms of law, was last required To name the thing that women most desired. The...
Page 47 - But fed us, by the way, with food divine. In deference to his virtues, I forbear To show you what the rest in orders were : This brilliant is so spotless, and so bright, He needs no foil, but shines by his own proper light.
Page 160 - Impatient to revenge her injur'd bed, She wreaks her anger on her rival's head; With Furies frights her from her native home ; And drives her gadding, round the world to roam : Nor ceas'd her madness, and her flight, before She touch'd the limits of the Pharian shore.
Page 92 - Cymon call'd, which signifies a brute ; So well his name did with his nature suit. His father, when he found his labour lost, And care employ'd, that answer'd not the cost, 10 Chose an ungrateful object to remove.