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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... ftill alive , what a noble field would have been now open to his genius , for exerting all its powers , in celebrating your long and unwearied application to public business , that zeal and fidelity with which you have acquitted ...
... ftill alive , what a noble field would have been now open to his genius , for exerting all its powers , in celebrating your long and unwearied application to public business , that zeal and fidelity with which you have acquitted ...
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... ftill had faults , and men will have them ftill ; He that hath none , and lives as angels do , Must be an angel ; but what's that to you ? While mighty Lewis find the pope too great , And dreads the yoke of his impofing feat , Our fects ...
... ftill had faults , and men will have them ftill ; He that hath none , and lives as angels do , Must be an angel ; but what's that to you ? While mighty Lewis find the pope too great , And dreads the yoke of his impofing feat , Our fects ...
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... ftill of more ; To her own wool the filks of Afia joins , And to her plenteous harvefts India's mines ; So Dryden , not contented with the fame Of his own works , tho ' an immortal name , To lands remote fends forth his learned mufe ...
... ftill of more ; To her own wool the filks of Afia joins , And to her plenteous harvefts India's mines ; So Dryden , not contented with the fame Of his own works , tho ' an immortal name , To lands remote fends forth his learned mufe ...
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... ftill be obftinately blind , Still to divert the good thou haft design'd , Or with malignant penury , To starve the royal virtues of his mind . Faith is a christian's and a fubject's test , Oh give them to believe , and they are surely ...
... ftill be obftinately blind , Still to divert the good thou haft design'd , Or with malignant penury , To starve the royal virtues of his mind . Faith is a christian's and a fubject's test , Oh give them to believe , and they are surely ...
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... ftill thy mind poffeft , And fecond youth is kindled in thy breast . Thou mak'st the beauties of the Romans known , And England boafts of riches not her own : Thy lines have heighten'd Virgil's majefty , And Horace wonders at himself in ...
... ftill thy mind poffeft , And fecond youth is kindled in thy breast . Thou mak'st the beauties of the Romans known , And England boafts of riches not her own : Thy lines have heighten'd Virgil's majefty , And Horace wonders at himself in ...
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