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" In fire-works give him leave to vent his spite, Those are the only serpents he can write; The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be master of a puppet-show; On that one stage his works may yet appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year. "
The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Dryden - Page 207
by Walter Scott - 1834
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Miscellany Poems: Containing Variety of New Translations of the ..., Volume 2

John Dryden - Classical poetry - 1716 - 416 pages
...Serpents he can wrire ; The height of hit Ambirion is, we know, But to be Mafter of a Puppet-fliow, On that one Stage his Works may yet appear, And a Month's Harveft keeps him all the Year. Now ftop your Nofes, Readets, all and feme* Fot here's a Tun of Midnight-work...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...four-and-twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, 4(4 Indict him of a capital olfence. In fire-works give him leave to vent his spite, Those...appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year. Drydtn.] F.ij Now stop your noses, readers, all and some Tor here's a tun of midnight work to come,...
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Poetical Works

John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...four-aiid-tweiily letters to abuse, Which if he jnmbk's to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital olience. In fireworks give him leave to vent his spite, Those...appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year. Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, ~i For here's a tun of midnight-work to come, > Og from...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...inflame the minds of the people.* To this, and to the fire-works which attended its solemnisation, Dryden alludes in the lines to which Elkanah's subsequent...appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year." i ^ Notwithstanding the rank he held among the Vol. VI. p. 222. Vol. X. 370. Whig authors, * Settle,...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 9

John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...four-and-twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offence. In fire-works give him leave to vent his spite, Those...appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year. Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, "} For here's a tun of midnight-work to come, > J Og from...
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The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ...

John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...four-and-twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offence. In fire-works give him leave to vent his spite, Those...appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year. Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, "1 For here's a tun of midnight-work to come, > £ Og from...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Collated with the Best Editions:

John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...vent his spite, Those are the only serpents he can write ; The height of his amhition is, we know, Bit to be master of a puppet-show; On that one stage his...appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year. Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, "1 For here's a tun of midnight-work to come, > Og from...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 58

England - 1845 - 808 pages
...sense, Indict him of a capital offence, In fire-works give him leave to vent his spight, Those ire the only serpents he can write ; The height of his...may yet appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all «he year. " Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here's a tun of midnight- work to come,...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 11

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...Those are the only serpents he can write ; The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be master pf a puppet-show; On that one stage his works may yet...appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year. Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, ~\ For here's a tun of midnight-work to come, Og from a...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 11

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...his spite, Those are the only serpents he can write; The height of his ambiton is, we know, To be the master of a puppet-show ; On that one stage his works may yet appear, And a monthss harvest keeps him all the year. roL. xi. c with contempt ; and the following manifesto, as...
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