| John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...CHRONOS. And time to begin a new. Chorus of all. 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. Dance of huntsmen, nymphi, warriors and lovers A Song Fair, sweet, and young, receive a prize Reserved... | |
| John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pages
...are often the source of great cultural anxiety. Dryden, however, saw not a threat but an opportunity: '"Tis well an Old Age is out, / And time to begin a New." Like the early humanists, he hoped to claim the liminal position between ages for his own: "Let him... | |
| Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 pages
...century, the first century of the modern era: 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.2l> Notes CHAPTER 1 1. The Zohar, trans. Daniel C. Matt, Pritzker edition (Stanford: Stanford University... | |
| Melvin Jonah Lasky - 752 pages
...will. He could sense the shape of things to come but could not, or would not, become part of them. Tis well an old age is out: And time to begin a new. These elegiac lines are from his last written work, The Secular Masque, which was performed within... | |
| T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 300 pages
...of the nineteenth century into a new freedom. 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.6 The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew... | |
| John Richetti - 2005 - 974 pages
...figurative richness and a touching and occasional abandon to lyric melancholy. When Dryden wrote, in 1700, "Tis well an Old Age is out, / And time to begin a New' (vol. iv, p. 1765, lines 96-7), it was only in part the hopeful greeting of a new century; it was also... | |
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