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The Works of John Dryden - Volume 9

John Dryden

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. . .g the whole of the striking passage, on the different manner in which the night, after the battle of the first of June, was passed on board the English and Dutch fleets; but certainly the 71st stanza will not lose, by being an hundred times quoted:

In dreams they fearful precipices tread; Or, shipwrecked, labour to some distant shore; Or in dark churches walk among the dead; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more.

The verses, in which Prince Rupert and his enemy are compared to a greyhound and hare, after a course so desperate as totally to exhaust both, have been always considered as exquisitely beautiful.[86] The description of the Loyal London partakes of the [87]beauties and faults which are dispersed through the poem. Nothing can be more majestic than her description, "firing the air with her sanguine streamers," and "riding upon her shadow in floating gold." We lament, that the weaver should have been so fascinated with his. . . Read More

Community Reviews

2.00
- Nori - Jan 26, 2024

⭐️⭐️.5
“How do you improve Shakespeare.”
More ladies
More clowns
More innuendo
Less complex plots and emotions

3.00
- Katrina - Feb 23, 2009

co-written by Dryden. It had some very funny moments.

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