Dryden's Palamon and Arcite; Or, The Knight's TaleSilver, Burdett, 1898 - 92 páginas |
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66 Line adorn Arcite's arms array Atalanta Athenian Athens beauteous Emily began behold betwixt blood Boeotia bore breast breath Cadmus Capaneus captive charms Chaucer conquered conquest courser Creon cries crown death decree doom Dryden eyes fair falchions fame fane Fate fell field fight fire flames Fortune freed gate Goddess grace green grief ground grove hand haste Hauberks heart Heaven Hippolyta honour Iliad JOHN DRYDEN king knight Knight's Tale lance length light live look lord love's lovers Lycurgus maid Mars mind Minotaur mortal mourning never noble o'er pain Palamon and Arcite Philostratus Pirithous pity pleased poet pointed lance prince prison race rest rival Romantic love royal Saturn Scythia shield side sighed sight slain sorrow soul spear steed stood story strife sword tears temple Theban thee Theseus thine thou art turned Venus vows whate'er wife wood wound youth
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Página 54 - The balls of his broad eyes rolled in his head, And glared betwixt a yellow and a red; He looked a lion with a gloomy stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair; Big-boned and large of limbs, with sinews strong, Broad-shouldered, and his arms were round and long.
Página 57 - Alas! I have not words to tell my grief; To vent my sorrow would be some relief; Light sufferings give us leisure to complain; We groan, but cannot speak, in greater pain.
Página 82 - The attentive audience, thus his will declared : ' The Cause and Spring of motion, from above, Hung down on earth the golden chain of Love; Great was the effect, and high was his intent, When peace among the jarring seeds he sent ; Fire, flood, and earth, and air, by this were bound, And Love, the common link, the new creation crowned.
Página 11 - I have presumed further, in some places, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true lustre, for want of words in the beginning of our language.
Página 49 - On the other side, there stood Destruction bare; Unpunish'd Rapine, and a waste of War. Contest, with sharpen'd knives, in cloisters drawn, And all with blood bespread the holy lawn.
Página 76 - Tis all I can enjoy of all your charms : This hand I cannot but in death resign ; Ah, could I live ! but while I live 'tis mine. I feel my end approach, and thus embraced, Am pleased to die ; but hear me speak my last.
Página 48 - 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...
Página 47 - The costly feast, the carol, and the dance, Minstrels and music, poetry and play, And balls by night, and turnaments by day.
Página 66 - 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.
Página 20 - At every turn she made a little stand, And thrust among the thorns her lily hand To draw the rose; and every rose she drew, She shook the stalk, and brushed away the dew...