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The Art of English Poetry: Containing. Rules for making verses. A collection ... - Page 259
by Edward Bysshe - 1762
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The Guardian, Volume 1

English essays - 1714 - 380 pages
...fortifie my unlearned Reader with another Bit of Wifdom from Jtvvmal by Dryden, Look round the habttable World, how few Know their own Good, or knowing it,...purfue. How Void of Reafon are our Hopes and fears I What in the Centtufi of our Life af pears So welt Jefytt'ti, fo luckily begun, Sut, whm we have our...
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The Complete Art of Poetry: In Six Parts, Volume 2

Charles Gildon - English poetry - 1718 - 484 pages
...Wifdom is to Sloth too great a Shve, None are fo bufy as th« Fool and Xnaye. Vryd. Med. WISHES. , Look round the habitable World, how few Know their own Good, or knowing itj perfue ! How void of Reafon are our Hopes and Fears ! What in the Conduit of our l-iife appears...
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The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by mr. Dryden ...

Juvenal - 1726 - 468 pages
...happy. *** T OOK round the Habitable World, how few •*-' Know their own God j or knowing it, pur fuc How void of Reafon are our Hopes and Fears! What in the Condud of our Life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our With, we with...
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The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis:: And of Aulus Persius Flaccus

Juvenal - Satire - 1735 - 512 pages
...have theft, ''tit not much matter what we want bejides; Jtr me tave already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the Habitable World, how few Know their own Good ; or knowing it, purfue. HowvoidofReafonare our Hopes and Fears! What in the Conduct of our Life appears So well defign'd, fo...
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The Spectator: ...

1737 - 338 pages
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The Guardian, Volume 1

1747 - 584 pages
...Pain. GIVE me leave to fortify my unlearned Reader with another Bit of Wifdom from Juvenal by Dry den. Look round the habitable World, how few Know their...void of Reafon are our Hopes and Fears ! What in the Condufi of our Life appears But, when we have our Wijh, we wi/h undone? So well de/ign'd, fo luckily...
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 328 pages
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 4

John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 476 pages
...matter what •we want befdes ; for we have already enough to make us happy. X 2 3o8 THE TENTH SATIRE LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their...void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduit of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wim, we wifh...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - 1760 - 476 pages
...thefe, it is not much matter what •we want bejides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. X 2 LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their...void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, we with...
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The Life of John Buncle: Esq; Containing Various Observations and ...

Thomas Amory - Anecdotes - 1766 - 572 pages
...righteoufnefs, and the punifhment of wickednefs unto a future flate of cxiftence. SECTION SEGTION XIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears 1 What in the conduct of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our...
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