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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 240
edited by - 1779
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The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by mr. Dryden ...

Juvenal - 1726 - 468 pages
......• ".. Or I .,; Or Hirelings, at a Prize, their Fortunes try; Certain to tall unpity'd if they Dye; Since none can have the favourable Thought That to...Will they Fought, But that their Lives they willingly expofc, Bought by the Prztors to adorn their Shows, Yet fay the Stage and Lifts were both in fight,...
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The Works of the Most Celebrated Minor Poets: Containing the Works ..., Volume 2

1749 - 280 pages
...rabble fport » Or hirelings, at a price, their fortunes try, Certain to fall unpity'd if they dye ; Since none can have the favourable thought That to...willingly expofe, Bought by the praetors to adorn thefr fhows. Yet fay, the ftage and lift were both in fight, And you muft either chufe to aft, or fight...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester ...

1793 - 806 pages
...to make the rabble fport : Or hirelings, at a prize, their fortune», try ; Certain to fall unyity'd if they die ; Since none can have the favourable thought...to obey a tyrant's will they fought, But that their live» they willingly expofe, Bought by the Prxton to adorn their fhew». Death never fure bears fuch...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 pages
...with patience, nay divcifiun, fit, Applauding my lord's buffounry for wit. And clapping farce* acted by the court, While the peers cuff, to make the rabble...that their lives they willingly expofe, Bought by the Prztors to adorn their fhews. Yet fay, the ftage and lifts were both in fight, Acd you inuft either...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 pages
...cuff, to make the rabble fpcrt : Or hirelings at a prize, their fortunes tryj Certain to fall uupiry'd if they die ; Since none can have the favourable thought That to obey a tyrant's will they fi/ught, But that their lives they willingly expofe, Buoght by the Praetors to adorn their fhewi. Yet...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...buffoonry for wit, And clapping farces acted by the court, While the peers cuff, to make the rabble sport: Or hirelings, at a prize, their fortunes try; Certain...thought That to obey a tyrant's will they fought, Bnt that their lives they willingly expose, Bought by the pretors to adorn their shows. Yet say, the...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...court, While the peers cuff, to ffiakc the rabble sport: Or hirelings, at a prize, their fortunes I » ; Certain to fall unpity'd if they die ; Since none...will they fought, But that their lives they willingly expose, Bought by the pretors to adorn their shows. Yet say, the stage and lists were both in sight,...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 792 pages
...!><;, !<n. The good j£neas am I called ; a name, While fortune- favoured, not unknown to fame. Id. None can have the favourable thought, That to obey a tyrant's will they fought. Id. The violent will condemn the character of Absalom, as either too favourably or too hardly drawn....
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...his own; And, viewing monarchs' secret arts of sway, A royal factor for their kingdoms lay. DRYDEN. None can have the favourable thought, That to obey a tyrant's will they fought. DRYDEN. From hence the fate of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome. DRYDEN. Your...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...his own; And, viewing monarchs' secret arts of sway, A royal factor for their kingdoms lay. DRYDEN. None can have the favourable thought, That to obey a tyrant's will they fought. DRYDF.X. From hence the fate of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome. DRYDEN....
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