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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... race , or for the field of battle , shews him the first to 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 ...
... race , or for the field of battle , shews him the first to 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 ...
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... race . The force of love is represented in noble instances , and very sublime expressions . The Scythian win- ter - piece appears so very cold and bleak to the eye , that a man can scarce look on it without shivering . The murrain , at ...
... race . The force of love is represented in noble instances , and very sublime expressions . The Scythian win- ter - piece appears so very cold and bleak to the eye , that a man can scarce look on it without shivering . The murrain , at ...
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... her beaver - stones from far ; And naked Spaniards temper steel for war : Epirus , for the Elean chariot , breeds ( In hopes of palms ) a race of running steeds . This is th ' original contract ; these the laws 30 GEORGICS , I.
... her beaver - stones from far ; And naked Spaniards temper steel for war : Epirus , for the Elean chariot , breeds ( In hopes of palms ) a race of running steeds . This is th ' original contract ; these the laws 30 GEORGICS , I.
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... race ; The careful ant her secret cell forsakes , } And drags her eggs along the narrow tracks : At either horn the rainbow drinks the flood ; Huge flocks of rising rooks forsake their food , And , crying , seek the shelter of the wood ...
... race ; The careful ant her secret cell forsakes , } And drags her eggs along the narrow tracks : At either horn the rainbow drinks the flood ; Huge flocks of rising rooks forsake their food , And , crying , seek the shelter of the wood ...
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... race be wholly run , Are void of tempests , both by land and sea , And sailors in the port their promised vow shall pay . Above the rest , the sun , who never lies , Foretells the change of weather in the skies : For , if he rise ...
... race be wholly run , Are void of tempests , both by land and sea , And sailors in the port their promised vow shall pay . Above the rest , the sun , who never lies , Foretells the change of weather in the skies : For , if he rise ...
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