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 14William Miller, 1808 |
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... happy occasion offered , of presenting to you the best poem of the best poet . If I balked this op- portunity , I was in despair of finding such another ; and , if I took it , I was still uncertain whether you would vouchsafe to accept ...
... happy occasion offered , of presenting to you the best poem of the best poet . If I balked this op- portunity , I was in despair of finding such another ; and , if I took it , I was still uncertain whether you would vouchsafe to accept ...
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... happy they would have more , and laid in , to make their solitude luxurious - a wretched philosophy , which Epicurus never taught them in his garden . They loved the prospect of this quiet in reversion , but were not willing to have it ...
... happy they would have more , and laid in , to make their solitude luxurious - a wretched philosophy , which Epicurus never taught them in his garden . They loved the prospect of this quiet in reversion , but were not willing to have it ...
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... happy life . Why should a reasonable man put it into the power of Fortune to make him miserable , when his ancestors have taken care to release him from her ? Let him venture , says Horace , qui zonam perdidit . He , who has nothing ...
... happy life . Why should a reasonable man put it into the power of Fortune to make him miserable , when his ancestors have taken care to release him from her ? Let him venture , says Horace , qui zonam perdidit . He , who has nothing ...
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... happy old Corycian , whom my author describes in his Fourth Georgic , whose fruits and sallads , on which he lived contented , were all of his own growth , and his own plantation . Virgil seems to think , that the blessings of a country ...
... happy old Corycian , whom my author describes in his Fourth Georgic , whose fruits and sallads , on which he lived contented , were all of his own growth , and his own plantation . Virgil seems to think , that the blessings of a country ...
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... happy fruits : A fourth , with grass unbidden , decks the ground . Thus Tmolus is with yellow saffron crowned : India black ebon and white ivory bears ; And soft Idume weeps her odorous tears . Thus Pontus sends her beaver - stones from ...
... happy fruits : A fourth , with grass unbidden , decks the ground . Thus Tmolus is with yellow saffron crowned : India black ebon and white ivory bears ; And soft Idume weeps her odorous tears . Thus Pontus sends her beaver - stones from ...
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