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 18
... trees will bear grafting on each other : Et sæpe alterius ramos impune videmus Vertere in alterius , mutatamque insita mala Ferre pyrum , et prunis lapidosa rubescere corna . Steriles platani malos gessere valentes : Castanea fagus ...
... trees will bear grafting on each other : Et sæpe alterius ramos impune videmus Vertere in alterius , mutatamque insita mala Ferre pyrum , et prunis lapidosa rubescere corna . Steriles platani malos gessere valentes : Castanea fagus ...
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... trees.- The last Georgic has , indeed , as many metaphors , but not so daring as this ; for human thoughts and passions may be more naturally ascribed to a bee , than to an inanimate plant . He who reads over the pleasures of a country ...
... trees.- The last Georgic has , indeed , as many metaphors , but not so daring as this ; for human thoughts and passions may be more naturally ascribed to a bee , than to an inanimate plant . He who reads over the pleasures of a country ...
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... trees with 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 ...
... trees with 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 ...
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... trees their forest - fruit denied . Soon was his labour doubled to the swain , And blasting mildews blackened all his grain : Tough thistles choked the fields , and killed the corn , And an unthrifty crop of weeds was born : Then burs ...
... trees their forest - fruit denied . Soon was his labour doubled to the swain , And blasting mildews blackened all his grain : Tough thistles choked the fields , and killed the corn , And an unthrifty crop of weeds was born : Then burs ...
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... tree , Such and so barren will thy harvest be : In vain the hind shall vex the thrashing - floor ; For empty chaff and straw will be thy store . Some steep their seed , and some in cauldrons boil , With vigorous nitre and with lees of ...
... tree , Such and so barren will thy harvest be : In vain the hind shall vex the thrashing - floor ; For empty chaff and straw will be thy store . Some steep their seed , and some in cauldrons boil , With vigorous nitre and with lees of ...
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