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Next we have, in 1660, "Astraea Redux" on the "happy restoration" of Charles II. In this also we can forebode little of the full-grown Dryden but his defects. We see his tendency to exaggeration, and to confound physical with metaphysical, as where he says of the ships that brought home the royal brothers, that
I am perverted, burlesqued by the fury of wrath I feel at their incessant pursuit. And I despise Mr. Osier and Mr. Swithin because they have an air of pious agreement with the Dame, and are conspirators behind their mask. LYRA: False, false men! ASTRAEA: They come to me. I am complimented on being the vulnerable spot. LYRA: The object desired is usually addressed by suitors, my poor Astraea!
Your voice, your eyes, your veil, your knife and fork; Your tenfold worship of your widowhood; As he who sees he must yield up the flag, Hugs it oath-swearingly! straw-drowningly. To be reasonable: you sent this gentleman Referring him to me.... ASTRAEA: And that is false. All's false. You have conspired. I am disgraced. But you will learn you have judged erroneously.
Holmes's handwriting is the following amusing note accompanying the manuscript copy of "Astraea: The Balance of Illusions." The note possibly alludes to "Astraea" as the poem to be written. MY DEAR SIR, The above is an argument of great weight to all those who, like the late John Rogers, are surrounded by a numerous family.
His air of self-satisfaction increases their uneasiness they follow him. LYRA: Oh! Pluriel, ask me of him! I wish I were less sure he would not be at the next corner I turn. ASTRAEA: You speak of your husband strangely, Lyra. LYRA: My head is out of a sack.
Thereupon Minerva and Astraea, who despite their names, and their description of themselves as "Girls of an untittering Disposition," must have been very bright and lively young persons, began seriously "to lay their two wise heads together" and "hazard this Discovery of their Emptiness." Had it been the latter only it would be more worthy of Mr.
Rash editors think there is to be a reign of Astraea Redux in Prussia, by means of this young King; and forget to ask themselves, as the young King must by no means do, How far Astraea may be possible, for Prussia and him? At home, too, there is prophesying enough, vague hope enough, which for most part goes wide of the mark.
How am I to make him see that it is I who respect the state of marriage by refusing; not he by perpetually soliciting. Once married, married for ever. Widow is but a term. When women hold their own against him, as I have done, they will be more esteemed. I have resisted and conquered. I am sorry I do not share in the opinion of your favourite. LYRA: Mine? ASTRAEA: You spoke warmly of him.
HOMEWARE: Astraea, it is decided, must remain solitary, virgin cold, like the little Alpine flower. Professor Spiral has his theme. ARDEN: He will make much of it. May I venture to say that I prefer my present company? HOMEWARE: It is a singular choice. I can supply you with no weapons for the sort of stride in which young men are usually engaged. You belong to the camp you are avoiding.
Astraea, bearing her sheep-hook as a sort of pastoral sceptre, typified the Queen, and passed on in her triumphal car with the words: In her praise the graces, the virtues, and a champion utter appropriate speeches, whilst Superstition, a friar, and Ignorance, a priest, together with other malcontents, shrink back abashed before her onward march.
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