Bell's Edition, Bände 41-42J. Bell, 1777 |
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... pow'r assume , 5 10 15 And would for scorpions change the rods of Rome ; That church detain'd the legacy divine : Fanatics cast the pearls of heav'n to swine : What then have thinking honest men to do , But choose a mean between th ...
... pow'r assume , 5 10 15 And would for scorpions change the rods of Rome ; That church detain'd the legacy divine : Fanatics cast the pearls of heav'n to swine : What then have thinking honest men to do , But choose a mean between th ...
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... pow'r , which for themselves they sought , The vulgar , gull'd into rebellion , arm'd , Their blood to action by their prize was warm'd , The sacred purple then , and scarlet gown , Like sanguine dye , to elephants was shown . Thus when ...
... pow'r , which for themselves they sought , The vulgar , gull'd into rebellion , arm'd , Their blood to action by their prize was warm'd , The sacred purple then , and scarlet gown , Like sanguine dye , to elephants was shown . Thus when ...
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... pow'r his wit did gain . Henceforth their fougue must spend at lesser rate , Than in its flames to wrap a nation's fate . Suffer'd to live , they are like Helots set , A virtuous shame within us to beget . For by example most we sinn'd ...
... pow'r his wit did gain . Henceforth their fougue must spend at lesser rate , Than in its flames to wrap a nation's fate . Suffer'd to live , they are like Helots set , A virtuous shame within us to beget . For by example most we sinn'd ...
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... proclaim Long - fuffering , Goodness , Mercy , in his name . 260 Your pow'r to justice doth submit your cause , 265 Your goodness only is above the laws ; Whose rigid letter , while pronounc'd by you , Is 54 ASTREA REDUX .
... proclaim Long - fuffering , Goodness , Mercy , in his name . 260 Your pow'r to justice doth submit your cause , 265 Your goodness only is above the laws ; Whose rigid letter , while pronounc'd by you , Is 54 ASTREA REDUX .
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... pow'r his wit did gain . Henceforth their fougue must spend at lesser rate , Than in its flames to wrap a nation's fate . Suffer'd to live , they are like Helots set , A virtuous shame within us to beget . For by example most we sinn'd ...
... pow'r his wit did gain . Henceforth their fougue must spend at lesser rate , Than in its flames to wrap a nation's fate . Suffer'd to live , they are like Helots set , A virtuous shame within us to beget . For by example most we sinn'd ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absalom Achithophel arms arts Behold Belgian blessings blest blood bold book of Kings brave breast cause CHRO church crimes crowd crown dare David's Deist design'd divine Dryden e'en English ev'ry Exeter Exchange eyes faction faith False heroes fame fate father fear fight fire flames fleet foes forc'd gen'ral giv'n grace hand happy haste Heav'n heav'nly Hebron Hind honour int'rest Isr'el Jebusites Jews JOHN DRYDEN king land laws Lord mercy mighty monarch Muse Nature's ne'er never num'rous numbers o'er once Ovid Panther peace plain plot Poem poet pow'r praise pray'r prey pride prince promis'd rage rais'd rebel reign rest rise royal ruin sacred sanhedrims satire Scripture second Punic war sects seem'd shews shore soul sov'reign suff'rings supply'd sway thee thou thought thro throne Timotheus toil triumph true truth try'd twas verse vex'd virtue wind
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 109 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Seite 105 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Seite 106 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain: Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Seite 102 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes ! Sound the trumpets, beat the...
Seite 105 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Seite 28 - Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! While at each change the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And the world's victor stood subdued by sound ! The power of music all our hearts allow, And what Timotheus was, is DRYDEN now.
Seite 171 - That every man, with him, was god or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late: He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Seite 107 - Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Seite 170 - In the first rank of these did Zimri ' stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was...
Seite 172 - Thus, heaping wealth, by the most ready way Among the Jews, which was to cheat and pray; The city, to reward his pious hate Against his master, chose him magistrate: His hand a vare of justice did uphold; His neck was loaded with a chain of gold.