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...routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. All, all of a piece throughout: Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing about; Thy lovers...'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new. (The Secular Masque) (Alexander's Feast) Dryden was an innovator, leading the move from heroic couplets...

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...Dryden's life, the laureate wrote off the Restoration with the words The Wars brought nothing about, The Lovers were all untrue; 'Tis well an Old Age is out, And time to begin a New. When Sir Christopher Wren rebuilt St Paul's and much of the City after the Great Fire, he achieved...

...freedom. All, all of a piece throughout: Thy Chase had a Beast in View; Thy Wars hrought nothing ahout; Thy Lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an Old Age is out, And time to hegin a New. • • • • The world's great age hegins anew, The golden years return, The earth...

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...well be his final work, written in the first year of the eighteenth century, concludes with the lines: 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new. Aeneas seeking the golden bough (engraving of i 654, adapted for the 1697 edition of Dry den) The publisher...

...in the gloomy recognition that "supine felicity" has been the best of man's experiences hitherto: " Tis well an old age is out, / And time to begin a new" (Secular Masque 9o-91). Given the consistent pattern and the regression of confidence, I think we can...

...Movement, sometime round about 1840? We live in AD, not in CE, as some of us profess to believe. " Tis well an old age is out, /And time to begin a new," wrote John Dryden, not very long before his death in 1700, a year that the poet seems to have regarded...

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