Drydens̓ Palamon and Arcite, Volumen13American Book Company, 1897 - 111 páginas |
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Arcite's arms array Athenian Athens battle beauteous Emily began behold blessed blood Boccaccio bore bound burned Canterbury Tales captive cast Chaucer conquered conquest couplets courser Creon cries crown death decree Diana duchess of Ormond Emetrius eyes fair fame fate fell field fight fire flames Fortune goddess gods grace Greek grief ground happy haste heart Heaven heroic couplet honor JOHN DRYDEN Jupiter king knew lance live look lord lost Lycurgus maid manly Mars Meleager mortal mourning Nereids nevermore Note o'er pain PALAMON AND ARCITE Pirithous planet pleased poem poet poetry prince prison Proserpina proud queen of love race returned rival royal Saturn shield side slain soul steed stood strife Supp sword tears temple Theban Thebes thee Theseus thine thou thought throne took Venus victory wife wood
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Página 10 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
Página 12 - ... for which they were enacted. As for the other part of the argument, that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty by the innovation of words; in the first place, not only their beauty, but their being is lost, where they are no longer understood, which is the present case. I grant that something must be lost in all transfusion, that is, in all translations...
Página 10 - 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.
Página 12 - I made it for their sakes who understand sense and poetry as well as they, when that poetry and sense is put into words which they understand. I will go farther, and dare to add, that what beauties I lose in some places, I give to others which had them not originally; but in this I maybe partial to myself: let the reader judge, and I submit to his decision.
Página 100 - Honi soit qui mal y pense," "Evil to him who evil thinks.
Página 44 - Their adverse breasts with tusks oblique they wound; With grunts and groans the forest rings around. So fought the knights, and fighting must abide, Till fate an umpire sends their difference to decide.
Página 10 - The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; but 'tis like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was auribus istius temporis accommodata: they who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries: there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.
Página 38 - That all the horizon laughed to see the joyous sight: He with his tepid rays the rose renews, And licks the drooping leaves, and dries the dews, When Arcite left his bed, resolved to pay Observance to the month of merry May; Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, That...
Página 63 - His amber-coloured locks in ringlets run, With graceful negligence, and shone against the sun. His nose was aquiline, his eyes were blue, Ruddy his lips, and fresh and fair his hue ; Some sprinkled freckles on his face were seen, Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin...
Página 89 - But whither went his soul? let such relate Who search the secrets of the future state: Divines can say but what themselves believe; Strong proofs they have, but not demonstrative; For, were all plain, then all sides must agree, And faith itself be lost in certainty. To live uprightly then is sure the best; To save ourselves, and not to damn the rest.