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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... woods , and has the most delightful part of nature for its province . It raises in our minds a pleasing variety of scenes and landscapes , whilst it teaches us , and makes the driest of its precepts look like a description . A Georgic ...
... woods , and has the most delightful part of nature for its province . It raises in our minds a pleasing variety of scenes and landscapes , whilst it teaches us , and makes the driest of its precepts look like a description . A Georgic ...
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... woods , with their heads stooping to the ground , and their tails clapt between their legs ; the goats and oxen are almost flayed with cold : but it is not so bad with the sheep , because they have a thick coat of wool about them . The ...
... woods , with their heads stooping to the ground , and their tails clapt between their legs ; the goats and oxen are almost flayed with cold : but it is not so bad with the sheep , because they have a thick coat of wool about them . The ...
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... wood , ) The ensuing season , in return , may bear The bearded product of the golden year : For flax and oats will burn the tender field , And sleepy poppies harmful harvests yield . But sweet vicissitudes of rest and toil Make easy ...
... wood , ) The ensuing season , in return , may bear The bearded product of the golden year : For flax and oats will burn the tender field , And sleepy poppies harmful harvests yield . But sweet vicissitudes of rest and toil Make easy ...
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... wood invade , ) And various arts in order did succeed , ( What cannot endless labour , urged by need ? ) First Ceres taught , the ground with grain to sow , And armed with iron shares the crooked plough ; When now Dodonian oaks no more ...
... wood invade , ) And various arts in order did succeed , ( What cannot endless labour , urged by need ? ) First Ceres taught , the ground with grain to sow , And armed with iron shares the crooked plough ; When now Dodonian oaks no more ...
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... wood : If odorous blooms the bearing branches load , The glebe will answer to the sylvan reign ; Great heats will follow , and large crops of grain . But , if a wood of leaves o'ershade the tree , Such and so barren will thy harvest be ...
... wood : If odorous blooms the bearing branches load , The glebe will answer to the sylvan reign ; Great heats will follow , and large crops of grain . But , if a wood of leaves o'ershade the tree , Such and so barren will thy harvest be ...
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