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" If from thy hands alone my death can be, I am immortal and a god to thee. If I would kill thee now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is fixed so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never... "
The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes - Page 5
by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop, ere I can give the blow. But mine is fixed so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down.' " Now where that is Almanzor's fate is fixed, I cannot guess ; but wherever it is, I believe Almanzor,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Dryden

Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 pages
...now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is iix'd so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never...thy friend. Like heaven, I need but only to stand stilt, And, not concurring to thy life, I kill. Thou canst no title to my duty bring ; I'm not thy...
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop, ere I can give the blow. But mine is fixt so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down." ' Now where that is, Almanzor's fate is fixt, I cannot guess ; but wherever it is, I believe Almanzor,...
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The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 pages
...now, thy fate 'a BO low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow. But mine ia fixed BO far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down. Bat, at my ease, thy destiny I send, By ceasing from this hour to be thy friend. Like heaven, I need...
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The Works of John Dryden: Illustrated, with Notes, Historical ..., Volume 4

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 490 pages
...now, thy fate 's so low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow But mine is fixed so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down : By ceasing from this hour to be thy friend. Like heaven, I need but only to stand still,' And, not...
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Über die metrik Robert Greene's

Carl Friedrich Knaut - 1883 - 868 pages
...vorangehenden Verses znm nftchstfolgenden liber. C. o. G. 1 IV 77. But mine is fixed so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down ua Viertens ist ein kiirzerer Vers dadurch entstanden, dass eine Person gleich im Beginn ihrer Rede...
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The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare

Jean Jules Jusserand - 1890 - 454 pages
...now, thy fate's so low That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is fixed so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down : But at my case, thy destiny I send, By ceasing from this hour to be thy friend. Like heaven, I need but only...
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The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare

Jean Jules Jusserand - 1890 - 466 pages
...fate's so low That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is fixed so far above thy erown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down : But at my case, thy destiny I send, By ceasing from this hour to be thy friend. Like heaven, I need but only...
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The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 496 pages
...thy fate 's so low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is fixed so far above thy crown, That all thy men, Piled on thy back, can never...need but only to stand still, And, not concurring in thy life, I kill. / Thou canst no title to my duty bring ; I 'm not thv subject, and my soul 's...
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The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 pages
...fate 's so low, That I jniist stoop ere I can give the blow. Bat mine is fixed so far above thy crown, Piled on thy back, can never pull it down. But, at my ease, thy destiny I send, By ceasing from ibis hour to be thy friend. Like heaven, I need but only to stand still ; And, not concurring to thy...
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