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John Dryden. (1631–1700) (continued)

The force of Nature could no further go;
To make a third, she join’d the former two. 1

Under Mr. Milton’s Picture.

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    From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
      This universal frame began:
      From harmony to harmony
Through all the compass of the notes it ran,
The diapason closing full in Man.

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day. Line 11.

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None but the brave deserves the fair.

Alexander’s Feast. Line 15.

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        With ravish’d ears
    The monarch hears;
    Assumes the god,
    Affects to nod,
And seems to shake the spheres.

Alexander’s Feast. Line 37.

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Bacchus, ever fair and ever young.

Alexander’s Feast. Line 54.

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Rich the treasure,
Sweet the pleasure,—
Sweet is pleasure after pain.

Alexander’s Feast. Line 58.

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Sooth’d with the sound, the king grew vain;
Fought all his battles o’er again;
And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.

Alexander’s Feast. Line 66.

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Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,
Fallen from his high estate,
And welt’ring in his blood;
Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed,
On the bare earth expos’d he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes.

Alexander’s Feast. Line 77.

Note 1.
Græcia Mæonidam, jactet sibi Roma Maronem,
Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem
(Greece boasts her Homer, Rome can Virgil claim;
England can either match in Milton’s fame).
Selvaggi: Ad Joannem Miltonum. [back]

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