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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS FUNERAL PINDARIC POEM, SACKED TO THE HAPPY MEMORY OF KING CHARLES II. Fortunati ambo ti quid mea carmina possvnt, Nulla diet unyuam memori vos cximct cevo. THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS. The death of Charles II. was sudden and unexpected. After he had apparently completely subdued the popular party, and was preparing, as has been confidently alleged, a similar conquest over the high-flying followers of the Duke of York, in the midst of his present triumph and future projects, he was, on the morning of the '2d February, 1684-5, seized with a sudden fit, which resembled an apoplexy. He was bled by one King, a chemist, who happened to be in waiting, and experienced a temporary relief. From the 2d till the 6th, he continued in a languishing state, the Duke of York being in constant attendance on his death-bed. On the forenoon of the 6th, Charles died, to the general grief of his subjects, by whom he was personally beloved, and who had reason to fear, that his worst public measures would be followed out with more rigour by his successor. A numerous host of rhymers stepped forward with their condolences upon this event. Among these, we find few eminent namesbesides that of Dryden. Otway, indeed, has left a poem on the subject, called Windsor Castle; and he began a pastoral, which, fortunately for his reputation, he left unfinished. From the laur eat a deeper tone of lamentation wasdue. But whether thesenseof discharging a task, a sense so chilling always to poetical imagination, had fettered Dryden's powers, or from whatever other reason, his funeral pindaric has not been esteemed one of his happiest lyric effusions. It is devoid of any appearance of deep feeling on the part of the author himself. This is the more remarkable, as themanners of Charle...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217136716 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217136710 |
| Weight | 0.81 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 In |
| List Price | $23.46 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 246 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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