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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... virtue prove death's harbinger ? must she , With him expiring , feel mortality ? Is death , fin's wages , grace's now ? fhall art Make us more learned , only to depart ? VOL . I. B If merit be difeafe ; if virtue death ; To.
... virtue prove death's harbinger ? must she , With him expiring , feel mortality ? Is death , fin's wages , grace's now ? fhall art Make us more learned , only to depart ? VOL . I. B If merit be difeafe ; if virtue death ; To.
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... virtue's , and on learning's pole : Whofe reg'lar motions better to our view , Than Archimedes ' sphere , the heavens did fhew . Graces and virtues , languages and arts , Beauty and learning , fill'd up all the parts . Heav'n's gifts ...
... virtue's , and on learning's pole : Whofe reg'lar motions better to our view , Than Archimedes ' sphere , the heavens did fhew . Graces and virtues , languages and arts , Beauty and learning , fill'd up all the parts . Heav'n's gifts ...
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... mother ; bring thou forth Th ' ideas of his virtue , knowledge , worth ; Transcribe th ' original in new copies ; give Haftings o'th ' better part : fo fhall he live In's nobler half ; and the great grandfire be Of B 3 LORD HASTINGS . 5.
... mother ; bring thou forth Th ' ideas of his virtue , knowledge , worth ; Transcribe th ' original in new copies ; give Haftings o'th ' better part : fo fhall he live In's nobler half ; and the great grandfire be Of B 3 LORD HASTINGS . 5.
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... virtue poifon'd foon as born , With the too early thoughts of being king . VIII . Fortune , that eafy mistress to the young , But to her ancient fervants coy and hard , Him at that age her favourites rank'd among , When she her beft ...
... virtue poifon'd foon as born , With the too early thoughts of being king . VIII . Fortune , that eafy mistress to the young , But to her ancient fervants coy and hard , Him at that age her favourites rank'd among , When she her beft ...
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... virtues did furvey , By intuition in his own large breast , Where all the rich ideas of them lay , That were the rule and measure to the rest , XXVII . When fuch heroic virtue heaven fets out , 12 ON THE DEATH OF.
... virtues did furvey , By intuition in his own large breast , Where all the rich ideas of them lay , That were the rule and measure to the rest , XXVII . When fuch heroic virtue heaven fets out , 12 ON THE DEATH OF.
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