| John Rodden - 1999 - 546 pages
...exception of the second line poetry of statement: All, all of a piece throughout; Thy chase had a beast in view: Thy wars brought nothing about; Thy lovers...untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.1 But these lines are not paraphrasable. Arnold said that his poetry attempted a fusion of the... | |
| Sandra L. Beckett - 1999 - 314 pages
...and finally, an excerpt from John Dryden's The Secular Masque, dated 1700, The last quoted lines are, "tis well an old age is out, / And time to begin a new," and a stage instruction for a "dance of huntsmen, nymphs, warriors, and lovers" t561 ), Dryden, fittingly,... | |
| Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 pages
...with irresistible parting tenderness, tears of welcome, abundance of fine feeling and flown phrasing. '"Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new." The air is heavy with awrestrained emotion. John Dennis, the foremost dramatic critic of the new decade,... | |
| Ronald Carter, John McRae - 2001 - 598 pages
...vital forum for the discussion of the major themes of the age. Restorarion to Romanticism 1660-1789 Thy wars brought nothing about; Thy lovers were all untrue, 'Tis well an old age is out, And rime to begin a new (John Dryden, The Secular Masque] CONTEXTS AND CONDITIONS The Restoration did not... | |
| Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...would have sounded more curious still without the enlightenment experience.103 THE BIRTH OF AN IDEOLOGY 'Tis well an Old Age is out, And time to begin a New. JOHN DRYDEN1 I am here in a country which hardly resembles the rest of Europe. This nation is passionately... | |
| Elizabeth Wilson - 2001 - 180 pages
...of its 'playfully' optimistic alternative face has now been exhausted, and, in a new century, it is 'well an old age is out, and time to begin a new'. PART TWO THE SPHINX IN THE CITY RECONSIDERED Honoré de Balzac's Illusions perdues is the tale of a... | |
| Annie Finch, Kathrine Varnes - 2002 - 460 pages
...I » II I , I Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing about; w II wwt I wf I ' " 'I Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, , | . . , |- , And time to begin a new. Masefield's "Sea-Fever" uses a similar mixture of feet, if less adroitly. If the Romantic poets revived... | |
| Marcie Frank - 2002 - 194 pages
...the weight of the globe on his back, and laugh-ing Momus, a figure for ridicule, finally announces: '"Tis well an Old Age is out, / And time to begin a New" (lines 90—91). It would be easy to see "The Secular Masque" as representing a characteristic problem... | |
| Louis Daniel Brodsky - 1996 - 644 pages
...intervening lapse between those two suburbs should be spent elsewhere. 2/24/65 (05204) The Eve of Janus Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new, — John Dryden, The Secular Masque The rattling year roared, yearning * Down the drain of its burning... | |
| Marcie Frank - 2002 - 194 pages
...the weight of the globe on his back, and laughing Momus, a figure for ridicule, finally announces: '"Tis well an Old Age is out, / And time to begin a New" (lines 90-91). It would be easy to see "The Secular Masque" as representing a characteristic problem... | |
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