The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1760 |
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... common tomond that wild deluge where the world was drown'd , When life and fin one common tomb had found , The first small prospect of a rifing hill With various notes of joy the ark did fill : Yet when that flood in its own depths was ...
... common tomond that wild deluge where the world was drown'd , When life and fin one common tomb had found , The first small prospect of a rifing hill With various notes of joy the ark did fill : Yet when that flood in its own depths was ...
Page 53
... COMMON - COUNCIL of it . As Α S perhaps I am the first who ever presented a work of this nature to the metropolis of any nation ; fo it is likewise confonant to justice , that he who was to give the first example of fuch a dedication ...
... COMMON - COUNCIL of it . As Α S perhaps I am the first who ever presented a work of this nature to the metropolis of any nation ; fo it is likewise confonant to justice , that he who was to give the first example of fuch a dedication ...
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... more of the idiom of it than any other words . We hear indeed among our poets , of the thundering of guns , the fmoke , the difor- der , and the flaughter ; but all these are common notions . And certainly , as thofe , who , 60 A LETTER TO.
... more of the idiom of it than any other words . We hear indeed among our poets , of the thundering of guns , the fmoke , the difor- der , and the flaughter ; but all these are common notions . And certainly , as thofe , who , 60 A LETTER TO.
Page 139
... common coxcomb must be mention'd here : Not the dull train of dancing sparks appear ; Nor fluttering officers who never fight ; Of fuch a wretched rabble who would write ? Much lefs half wits : that's more against our rules ; For they ...
... common coxcomb must be mention'd here : Not the dull train of dancing sparks appear ; Nor fluttering officers who never fight ; Of fuch a wretched rabble who would write ? Much lefs half wits : that's more against our rules ; For they ...
Page 146
... common sense ; And ' tis a miracle we may suppose , No naftiness offends his fkilful nofe ; Which from all stink can with peculiar art Extract perfume and effence from a f --- t : Expecting fupper is his great delight ; He toils all day ...
... common sense ; And ' tis a miracle we may suppose , No naftiness offends his fkilful nofe ; Which from all stink can with peculiar art Extract perfume and effence from a f --- t : Expecting fupper is his great delight ; He toils all day ...
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