 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.  The Works of the English Poets: Dryden - Page 132by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...of love : Great was th' effect, and high was his intent, When peace among the jarring seeds he sent, without the gains, endure, Be envied, wretched, still holds ; for, though the forms decay, Eternal matter never wears away : The same first Mover certain... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 344 pages
...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,...the common link, the new creation crown'd. The chain still holds ; for though the forms decay, Eternal matter never wears away : The same first mover certain... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...Love : an Great was the effect, and high was his intent, When peace among the jarring seeds he sent. den still holds ; for though the forms decay, Eternal matter never wears away : The same first Mover certain... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1869 - 570 pages
...: Great was the effect, and high was his intent, When peace among the jarring seeds he sent. Eire, flood, and earth, and air,- by this were bound, And...the common link, the new creation crown'd. The chain still holds ; for though the forms decay, Eternal matter never wears away : The same first Mover certain... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 764 pages
...1025 " 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 crealion crowned. " The chain still holds ; for though the forms decay, 1030 " Eternal matter never... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...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,...the common link, the new creation crown'd. The chain still holds ; for though the forms decay, 1030 Eternal matter never wears away : The same First Mover... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...of love : Great was th' effect, and high was his intent. When peace among the jarring seeds he sent. lh faintness on, and looks with fear, So seem'd the sire ; when far upon the road, The shining s crown *d The chain still holds ; for, though the forms decay. Eternal matter never wears away : The... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1885 - 534 pages
...; 1025 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. The chain still holds; for, though the forms decay, 1030 Eternal matter never wears away :... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...1025 " 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. ' The chain still holds ; for though the forms decay, 1030 Eternal matter never wears away... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 496 pages
...boundes, that they may nat flee. This is rendered by Drvden in his Palamon and Arcite, iii« i 028-9. Fire, flood and earth and air by this were bound, And Love, the common link, the new creation crowned. Compare Jeremy Taylor's ' Faith is the golden chain to link the penitent sinner unto God.'... | |
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