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" Holland fleet, who, tir'il and done, Stretch'd on their decks, like weary oxen lie : Faint sweats all down their mighty members run, (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, • Or, shipwreck'd, labour... "
The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works - Page 84
by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 1

John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 448 pages
...ill fupply. 71In dreams they fearful precipices tread ; Or fhipwreck'd, labor to fome diftant fhore : Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare fleep no more. 72. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top joyful news...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 318 pages
...fouls but ill fupply. 7'In dreams they fearful precipices tread: Or fhipwreck'd, labour to fome diflant Shore : Or in dark churches walk among the dead; They wake with horror, and dare fleep no more. 72. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main -top joyful news...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 41-42

John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...they fearful prec ipice* tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore . Or in dark clmrches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror,, and dare, sleep no more. •! Lxxu.;. ..,.,;.-.; , The morn they took on with unwilling eyes, Till frcm their main-tulf, joyful...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...fupply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, f Or, fhipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant fhore: V' ' Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead ; . They wake with horror, and dare fleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all i appropriated terms of art fhould be funk...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 338 pages
...In LXXI. In dreams they fearful precipices tread : Or, fhipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant fhore» Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare fleep no mo:e, LXXII. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top joyful news...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Dryden. Smith. Duke. King ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 484 pages
...fupply.) In In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, fhipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant fliore t Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare Qeep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art mould be funk in general...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 2

English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...ill fupply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, Ihipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant fliore: Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead; They wake with horror, and dare fleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art mould be funk In...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...ill fupply), In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, Ihipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant fhores Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare fleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art fhould be funk in...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...fupply. LXXI. In dreams they fearful precipices tread : Or, fhipwrc'ck'd, labour to fome diftant more: Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror and dare fleep no mere. Lixn. The morn they look nn with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top joyful news...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...ill fupply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, fhipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant fbore : Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead; They wake with horror, and dare fleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art fhould be funk in...
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