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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... rest , the re- spect and love which was paid you , not only in the province where you live , but generally by all who had the happiness to know you , was a wise ex- change for the honours of the court - a place of forgetfulness , at the ...
... rest , the re- spect and love which was paid you , not only in the province where you live , but generally by all who had the happiness to know you , was a wise ex- change for the honours of the court - a place of forgetfulness , at the ...
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... rest by the strength of her own fa- culties . But , since the inculcating precept upon precept will at length prove tiresome to the reader , if he meets with no entertainment , -the poet must take care not to encumber his poem with too ...
... rest by the strength of her own fa- culties . But , since the inculcating precept upon precept will at length prove tiresome to the reader , if he meets with no entertainment , -the poet must take care not to encumber his poem with too ...
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... rest . The poet , with a great beauty , applies oblivion , igno- rance , wonder , desire , and the like , to his trees.- The last Georgic has , indeed , as many metaphors , but not so daring as this ; for human thoughts and passions may ...
... rest . The poet , with a great beauty , applies oblivion , igno- rance , wonder , desire , and the like , to his trees.- The last Georgic has , indeed , as many metaphors , but not so daring as this ; for human thoughts and passions may ...
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... rest , I shall not presume to name them , as rather suspecting my own judge- ment , than I can believe a fault to be in that poem , which lay so long under Virgil's correction , and had his last hand put to it . The First Georgic was ...
... rest , I shall not presume to name them , as rather suspecting my own judge- ment , than I can believe a fault to be in that poem , which lay so long under Virgil's correction , and had his last hand put to it . The First Georgic was ...
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... rest and toil Make easy labour , and renew the soil . Yet sprinkle sordid ashes all around , * And load with fattening dung thy fallow ground . Thus change of seeds for meagre soils is best ; And earth manured , not idle , though at rest ...
... rest and toil Make easy labour , and renew the soil . Yet sprinkle sordid ashes all around , * And load with fattening dung thy fallow ground . Thus change of seeds for meagre soils is best ; And earth manured , not idle , though at rest ...
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