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Beyond the goal of nature I have gone ; My Pallas late fet out , but reach'd too foon . If , from my league against th ' Aufonian ftate , weapons I had found my fate , Amid their 235 246 245 ( Deferv'd ( Deferv'd from them ) then I had ...
Beyond the goal of nature I have gone ; My Pallas late fet out , but reach'd too foon . If , from my league against th ' Aufonian ftate , weapons I had found my fate , Amid their 235 246 245 ( Deferv'd ( Deferv'd from them ) then I had ...
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Inclos'd with hills , the winding valley lies , By nature form'd for fraud , and fitted for furprize ; A narrow track , by human steps untrode , 785 790 Leads , through perplexing thorns , to this obfcure abode .
Inclos'd with hills , the winding valley lies , By nature form'd for fraud , and fitted for furprize ; A narrow track , by human steps untrode , 785 790 Leads , through perplexing thorns , to this obfcure abode .
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... and they who have converfed with you are for ever after inviolably yours , This is a truth fo generally acknowledged , that it needs no proof ; it is of the nature of a first principle , which is received as foon as it is propofed ...
... and they who have converfed with you are for ever after inviolably yours , This is a truth fo generally acknowledged , that it needs no proof ; it is of the nature of a first principle , which is received as foon as it is propofed ...
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Good fenfe and good nature are never separated , though the ignorant world has thought otherwife . Good nature , by which I mean beneficence and canH 4 Jor dor , is the product of right reafon ; which DEDICATIO N. TOS.
Good fenfe and good nature are never separated , though the ignorant world has thought otherwife . Good nature , by which I mean beneficence and canH 4 Jor dor , is the product of right reafon ; which DEDICATIO N. TOS.
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... which are as inborn to you , as they were to Shakespeare ; and , for aught I know , to Homer ; in either of whom we find all arts and sciences , all moral and natural philofophy , without knowing that they ever studied them .
... which are as inborn to you , as they were to Shakespeare ; and , for aught I know , to Homer ; in either of whom we find all arts and sciences , all moral and natural philofophy , without knowing that they ever studied them .
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets, Volume 11 |
| Author | John Dryden |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres) |
| Publisher | J. Rivington, 1779 |
| Original from | the Complutense University of Madrid |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2009 |
| Length | 366 pages |
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