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" Like mine, thy gentle numbers feebly creep ; Thy Tragic Muse gives smiles ; thy Comic, sleep. With whate'er gall thou sett'st thyself to write, Thy inoffensive satires never bite. In thy felonious heart though venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen,... "
The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 440
by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808
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The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets: Poetic Responses to English ...

David Hopkins - 1994 - 275 pages
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...tympany of sense. A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ, But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit. Like mine, thy gentle numbers feebly creep; Thy Tragic...thyself to write. Thy inoffensive satires never bite. 200 In thy felonious heart though venom lies. It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius...
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The Poems of John Dryden: 1649-1681

John Dryden - 1995 - 618 pages
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Seventeenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology

Robert Cummings - 2000 - 586 pages
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British Literature 1640 - 1789: An Anthology

Robert DeMaria, Jr. - 2001 - 976 pages
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Selected Poems

John Dryden - 2002 - 114 pages
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Restoration Literature: An Anthology

Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pages
...tympany of sense: A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ, But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit. Like mine thy gentle numbers feebly creep, Thy tragic...thyself to write, Thy inoffensive satires never bite: 200 In thy felonious heart though venom lies It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies.* Thy genius...
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Genre and Ethics: The Education of an Eighteenth-century Critic

Edward Tomarken - 2002 - 292 pages
...course the art of this false art is to present the facade of wit and inspiration but not the real thing: Like mine thy gentle numbers feebly creep; Thy tragic...With whate'er gall thou sett'st thyself to write, Thy innoffensive satires never bite (197-200) The sponsors of any soap opera could hardly articulate a...
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The Major Works

John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...tympany of sense.0 A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ,0 But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit.0 Like mine, thy gentle numbers feebly creep; Thy tragic...thyself to write, Thy inoffensive satires never bite. wo In thy felonious heart though venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius...
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The Times Book of English Verse

Edward Leeson - 2004 - 728 pages
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