The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1W. Pickering, 1852 |
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Page 79 - Which makes one city of the universe ; Where some may gain, and all may be supplied. Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. This I foretell from your auspicious
Page 144 - Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon:
Page 145 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For, spite of him, the weight of business fell
Page 144 - Such were the tools: but a whole Hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land ; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Page 145 - On Absalom and wise Achitophel: Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. Titles and names 'twere tedious to rehearse Of lords, below the dignity of verse. 570 Wits, warriors, commonwealth's-men, were the best: Kind husbands, and mere nobles, all the rest. And therefore, in the name of dulness, be
Page 145 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes;
Page 136 - Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark. What cannot praise effect in mighty minds, When flattery soothes, and when ambition blinds ? Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, »« Yet sprung from high is of celestial seed : In God 'tis glory ; and when men aspire,
Page 124 - Began to dream they wanted liberty; And when no rule, no precedent was found, Of men, by laws less circumscrib'd and bound; They led their wild desires to woods and caves, And thought that all but savages were slaves. They who, when Saul was dead, without a blow, Made foolish Ishbosheth the crown forego; O
Page 161 - To learning and to loyalty were bred : For colleges on bounteous kings depend, And never rebel was to arts a friend. To these succeed the pillars of the laws ; Who best can plead, and best can judge a cause. Next them a train of loyal peers ascend ; Sharp-judging Adriel, the muses
Page 145 - And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded but desert.