The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1G. Bell & sons, 1891 |
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Page 139 - 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 565 On Absalom and wise Achitophel: Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft,
Page 77 - 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 care,f
Page 126 - Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtues only proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed ; 195 David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
Page 138 - 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 139 - 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 138 - Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build, and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. These out of mere instinct, they knew not why, Ador'd their fathers' God and property; And by the same blind benefit of fate
Page 3 - His grandeur he deriv'd from heaven alone; For he was great, ere fortune made him so : And wars, like mists that rise against the sun, Made him but greater seem, not greater grow. No borrow'd bays his temples did adorn, s» But to our crown he did fresh jewels bring; Nor was his virtue
Page 155 - 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 could plead, and best can judge a cause. Next them a train of loyal peers ascend ; Sharp-judging Adriel, the muses
Page 139 - 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.
Page 122 - twas their duty all the learned think, T' espouse his cause, by whom they eat and drink. From hence began that plot, the nation's curse, Bad in itself, but represented worse; Rais'd in extremes, and in extremes decried; no With oaths affirm'd, with dying vows denied ; Not weigh'd nor winnow'd by the multitude ; But