The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 15

In Florence dwelt a doctor of renown, The scourge of God, and terror of the town, Who all the cant of physic had by heart, And never murdered but by rules of art. The public mis...

_Turnus challenges Æneas to a single combat: articles are agreed on, but broken by the Rutuli, who wound Æneas. He is miraculously cured by Venus, forces Turnus to a duel, and c...

_Jupiter, calling a council of the gods, forbids them to engage in either party. At Æneas's return there is a bloody battle: Turnus killing Pallas; Æneas, Lausus and Mezentius....

_Æneas erects a trophy of the spoils of Mezentius, grants a truce for burying the dead, and sends home the body of Pallas with great solemnity. Latinus calls a council, to propo...

_Turnus takes advantage of Æneas's absence, fires some of his ships, (which are transformed into sea-nymphs,) and assaults his camp. The Trojans, reduced to the last extremities...

_The war being now begun, both the generals make all possible preparations. Turnus sends to Diomedes. Æneas goes in person to beg succours from Evander and the Tuscans. Evander...

There's not a monster bred beneath the sky, But well-disposed by art, may please the eye: A curious workman by his skill divine, From an ill object makes a good design. Thus to...

Rash author, 'tis a vain presumptuous crime, To undertake the sacred art of rhyme; If at thy birth the stars that ruled thy sense Shone not with a poetic influence, In thy strai...

As a fair nymph, when rising from her bed, With sparkling diamonds dresses not her head, But without gold, or pearl, or costly scents, Gathers from neighbouring fields her ornam...