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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Page 7
... pass the bridge , which trembles under him , and to stem the torrent of the flood . His beginnings must be in rashness - a noble fault : but time and experience will correct that error , and tame it into a deliberate and well - weighed ...
... pass the bridge , which trembles under him , and to stem the torrent of the flood . His beginnings must be in rashness - a noble fault : but time and experience will correct that error , and tame it into a deliberate and well - weighed ...
Page 15
... passing it over in silence , or casting it under the same head with pastoral : a division by no means proper , unless we suppose the style of a husband- man ought to be imitated in a Georgic , as that of a shepherd is in a Pastoral ...
... passing it over in silence , or casting it under the same head with pastoral : a division by no means proper , unless we suppose the style of a husband- man ought to be imitated in a Georgic , as that of a shepherd is in a Pastoral ...
Page 35
... pass untold what arms they wield , Who labour tillage and the furrowed field ; Without whose aid the ground her corn denies , And nothing can be sown , and nothing rise- The crooked plough , the share , the towering height Of waggons ...
... pass untold what arms they wield , Who labour tillage and the furrowed field ; Without whose aid the ground her corn denies , And nothing can be sown , and nothing rise- The crooked plough , the share , the towering height Of waggons ...
Page 37
... passing and repassing sun : Far on the right and left , the extremes of heaven To frosts and snows and bitter blasts are given : Betwixt the midst and these , the gods assigned Two habitable seats for human kind , And , ' cross their ...
... passing and repassing sun : Far on the right and left , the extremes of heaven To frosts and snows and bitter blasts are given : Betwixt the midst and these , the gods assigned Two habitable seats for human kind , And , ' cross their ...
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... pass the rake- Amazed at antique titles on the stones , And mighty reliques of gigantic bones . Ye home - born deities , of mortal birth ! Thou father Romulus , and mother Earth , Goddess unmoved ! whose guardian arms extend O'er Tuscan ...
... pass the rake- Amazed at antique titles on the stones , And mighty reliques of gigantic bones . Ye home - born deities , of mortal birth ! Thou father Romulus , and mother Earth , Goddess unmoved ! whose guardian arms extend O'er Tuscan ...
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