The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations |
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... death . DERRICK . Derrick should have added , that Collins expressly men- tions these elegies as printed in " Lachrymæ Musarum , the Tears of the Muses , expressed in elegies written by divers persons of nobility and worth , upon the death ...
... death . DERRICK . Derrick should have added , that Collins expressly men- tions these elegies as printed in " Lachrymæ Musarum , the Tears of the Muses , expressed in elegies written by divers persons of nobility and worth , upon the death ...
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... DEATH . 60 65 5 WHAT has this bugbear death to frighten man , If souls can die , as well as bodies can ? For , as before our birth we felt no pain , When Punic arms infested land and main , When heaven and earth were in confusion hurl'd ...
... DEATH . 60 65 5 WHAT has this bugbear death to frighten man , If souls can die , as well as bodies can ? For , as before our birth we felt no pain , When Punic arms infested land and main , When heaven and earth were in confusion hurl'd ...
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... death thou leav'st behind ; No time shall dry our tears , nor drive thee from our mind . The worst that can befal thee , measured right , 95 Is a sound slumber , and a long good night . Yet thus the fools , that would be thought the ...
... death thou leav'st behind ; No time shall dry our tears , nor drive thee from our mind . The worst that can befal thee , measured right , 95 Is a sound slumber , and a long good night . Yet thus the fools , that would be thought the ...
Contents
THE LIFE OF DRYDEN BY DR JOHNSON | xii |
SONGS AND ODESContinued | xii |
UPON THE DEATH OF LORD HASTINGS | 1 |
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