Dryden's Palamon and ArciteD.C. Heath & Company, 1898 - 149 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Absalom and Achitophel adorn Æneid Arcite of Thebes Arcite's arms Athenian Athens beauteous beauty behold blood bore breast Canterbury Tales captive charms Chaucer conquered conquest courser Creon death decree Diana doom Dryden Duchess Duchess of Ormond Duke earth Emily English eyes fair falchions Fate fight fire flames flower fortune geomantic figures goddess grace Greek Greek mythology grief hand heart Heaven Hippolyta honour iambic iambic pentameter imagination JOHN DRYDEN Jupiter king Knightes Tale length literary live lord Lycurgus maid Mars Meleager mortal mourning noble o'er Ormond pain Palamon and Arcite Philostratus Pirithous poem poetical poetry poets pointed lance Prince prison Queen race rest rhyme rival royal Saturn sighed slain sorrow soul spear stars steed stood story student sword syllables tears temple Theban Thebes thee Theseus thine thou thought Thrace throne Venus victory vows wood word wound
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 145 - If I had desired more to please than to instruct, the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers, as there are beaux and ladies of pleasure in the town.
עמוד 148 - Ilias or the jEneis: the story is more pleasing than either of them, the manners as perfect, the diction as poetical, the learning as deep and various, and the disposition full as artful; only it includes a greater length of time, as taking up seven years at least...
עמוד 144 - The matter and manner of their tales and of their telling are so suited to their different educations, humours and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
עמוד 79 - Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity; With equal mind what happens let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims, to the' appointed place we tend ; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
עמוד 146 - I confess, is a rough diamond, and must first be polished ere he shines. I deny not likewise that, living in our early days of poetry, he writes not always of a piece, but sometimes mingles trivial things with those of greater moment.
עמוד 69 - At this the challenger, with fierce defy, His trumpet sounds; the challenged makes reply: ' With clangour rings the field, resounds the vaulted sky. J Their vizors closed, their lances in the rest, Or at the helmet pointed or the crest, They vanish from the barrier, speed the race, And spurring see decrease the middle space.
עמוד 147 - But there are other judges who think I ought not to have translated Chaucer into English, out of a quite contrary notion. They suppose there is a certain veneration due to his old language, and that it is little less than profanation and sacrilege to alter it.
עמוד 45 - Where neither beast, nor human kind repair; The fowl, that scent afar, the borders fly, And shun the bitter blast, and wheel about the sky. A cake of scurf lies baking on the ground, And prickly stubs, instead of trees, are found; Or woods, with knots and knares...
עמוד 65 - Knights, with a long retinue of their squires, In gaudy liveries march, and quaint attires : One laced the helm, another held the lance, A third the shining buckler did advance. The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet, And snorting foam'd, and champ'd the golden bit.