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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... means of a friend , who has a confiderable fortune in his neighbourhood . He alfo addreffed himself on this head in perfon to a defcendant of our poet's , near Berkley - fquare ; but cannot fay he met with any information that gave him ...
... means of a friend , who has a confiderable fortune in his neighbourhood . He alfo addreffed himself on this head in perfon to a defcendant of our poet's , near Berkley - fquare ; but cannot fay he met with any information that gave him ...
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... mean between th'ufurping two ? Nor can th'Ægyptian patriarch blame thy mufe , Which for his firmness does his heat excufe ; Whatever councils have approv'd his creed , The preface fure was his own act and deed . Our church will have ...
... mean between th'ufurping two ? Nor can th'Ægyptian patriarch blame thy mufe , Which for his firmness does his heat excufe ; Whatever councils have approv'd his creed , The preface fure was his own act and deed . Our church will have ...
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... means as noble as your Which should you veil , we might unwind the clue , As men do nature , till we came to you . And as the Indies were not found , before Thofe rich perfumes , which , from the happy fhore , upon their balmy wings ...
... means as noble as your Which should you veil , we might unwind the clue , As men do nature , till we came to you . And as the Indies were not found , before Thofe rich perfumes , which , from the happy fhore , upon their balmy wings ...
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... mean not of length , but broken action , tied too feverely to the laws of history ) I am apt to agree with thofe , who rank Lucan , rather among hiftorians in verfe , than Epic poets : in whose room , if I am not deceived , Silius ...
... mean not of length , but broken action , tied too feverely to the laws of history ) I am apt to agree with thofe , who rank Lucan , rather among hiftorians in verfe , than Epic poets : in whose room , if I am not deceived , Silius ...
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... means in his epistle to the Piso's : Dixeris egregiè , notum fi callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum- you But I am fenfible I have presumed too far to entertain you with a rude difcourfe of that art , which both know fo well , and ...
... means in his epistle to the Piso's : Dixeris egregiè , notum fi callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum- you But I am fenfible I have presumed too far to entertain you with a rude difcourfe of that art , which both know fo well , and ...
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