The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Volume 4William Miller, 1808 |
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... reason . In the Grand Cyrus , Artamenes , upon a moderate computation , exterminates with his own hand , in the course of the work , at least a hundred thousand fighting men . These monstrous fictions , however , con- stituted the ...
... reason . In the Grand Cyrus , Artamenes , upon a moderate computation , exterminates with his own hand , in the course of the work , at least a hundred thousand fighting men . These monstrous fictions , however , con- stituted the ...
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... reason to question his having merited the compliment in the text . The Duke of Buck- ingham , in his memoirs , has borne witness to the intrepidity with which he encountered the dangers of his desperate naval actions with the Dutch ...
... reason to question his having merited the compliment in the text . The Duke of Buck- ingham , in his memoirs , has borne witness to the intrepidity with which he encountered the dangers of his desperate naval actions with the Dutch ...
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... reason to stand to the award of my ene- mies , so neither dare I trust the partiality of my friends : I make my last appeal to your royal high- ness , as to a sovereign tribunal . Heroes should only be judged by heroes ; because they ...
... reason to stand to the award of my ene- mies , so neither dare I trust the partiality of my friends : I make my last appeal to your royal high- ness , as to a sovereign tribunal . Heroes should only be judged by heroes ; because they ...
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... reason , thinks to im- ply a contradiction ) or that they are a thinner and more aerial sort of bodies , ( as some of the fathers have conjectured ) may better be explicated by poets than by philosophers or divines . For their lations ...
... reason , thinks to im- ply a contradiction ) or that they are a thinner and more aerial sort of bodies , ( as some of the fathers have conjectured ) may better be explicated by poets than by philosophers or divines . For their lations ...
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... reason to be satisfied , and to suffer with patience all that can be urged against it . For , otherwise , what can be more easy for me , than to defend the character of Almanzor , which is one great exception that is made against the ...
... reason to be satisfied , and to suffer with patience all that can be urged against it . For , otherwise , what can be more easy for me , than to defend the character of Almanzor , which is one great exception that is made against the ...
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