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Poor was his houfe ; his father's painful hand Discharg❜d his rent , and plough'd another's laud . As flames among the lofty woods are thrown , 760 On different fides , and both by winds are blown , The laurels crackle in the ...
Poor was his houfe ; his father's painful hand Discharg❜d his rent , and plough'd another's laud . As flames among the lofty woods are thrown , 760 On different fides , and both by winds are blown , The laurels crackle in the ...
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This , fays Boileau , is a very unequal match for the poor devils , who are fure to come by the worst of it in the combat ; for nothing is more eafy , than for an Almighty Power to bring his old rebels to reafon , when he pleafes .
This , fays Boileau , is a very unequal match for the poor devils , who are fure to come by the worst of it in the combat ; for nothing is more eafy , than for an Almighty Power to bring his old rebels to reafon , when he pleafes .
Page 129
... that fince this revolution , wherein I have patiently fuffered the ruin of my fmall fortune , and the lofs of that poor fubfiftence which I had from two kings , whom I had served more faithfully than profitably to myself ; then your ...
... that fince this revolution , wherein I have patiently fuffered the ruin of my fmall fortune , and the lofs of that poor fubfiftence which I had from two kings , whom I had served more faithfully than profitably to myself ; then your ...
Page 165
Yet , on the other fide , I would not be like fome of our judges , who would give the caufe for a poor man , right or wrong for though that be an error on the better hand , yet it is ftill a partiality : and a rich man unheard , cannot ...
Yet , on the other fide , I would not be like fome of our judges , who would give the caufe for a poor man , right or wrong for though that be an error on the better hand , yet it is ftill a partiality : and a rich man unheard , cannot ...
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... Whose evidence his lord and friend betray'd , And but the wifh'd occafion does attend , From the poor nobles the last spoils to rend , Whom ev'n spies dread as their fuperior fiend , And bribe with prefents ; or , when presents fail ...
... Whose evidence his lord and friend betray'd , And but the wifh'd occafion does attend , From the poor nobles the last spoils to rend , Whom ev'n spies dread as their fuperior fiend , And bribe with prefents ; or , when presents fail ...
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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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