01-25-2017, 05:30 AM
[MENTION=20933]LJay[/MENTION], I don't find Dryden foreign at all. The text is beautiful, although not too smooth at all times. And I love poetry that rhymes. In fact, I think poetry should rhyme.
How can you not love this:
Or this:
''And thrice about his neck my arms I flung,
And, thrice deceiv'd, on vain embraces hung.
Light as an empty dream at break of day,
Or as a blast of wind, he rush'd away''.
I only find that Dryden can be a bit unpolished/uncouth sometimes, but it's a passable fault.
How can you not love this:
Virgil - The Aeneid Wrote:I hear thee, Fate; and I obey thy call!
Not unreveng'd the foe shall see my fall.
Restore me to the yet unfinish'd fight:
My death is wanting to conclude the night.
Or this:
''And thrice about his neck my arms I flung,
And, thrice deceiv'd, on vain embraces hung.
Light as an empty dream at break of day,
Or as a blast of wind, he rush'd away''.
I only find that Dryden can be a bit unpolished/uncouth sometimes, but it's a passable fault.
''Do I look civilized to you?''