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The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 31
by Alexander Pope - 1822
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 41-42

John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...ease .' And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two-legg'd thing, a son ; 170 Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like Anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this the...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Part 1

John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...hours of rest ; " Punish a body which he could not please, " Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? " And all, to leave what with his toil he won, " To...notions try, " And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy." This .unfeather'd twoJlgg'd thing (which, however, is only Aristotle's definition of man,) was married...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Issue 1

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 608 pages
...hours of rest ; " Punish a body which he could not please, " Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? " And all, to leave what with his toil he won, " To...notions try, " And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy." This unftather'd two-legg'd thing (which, however, is only Aristotle's definition of man,) was married...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First ...

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 pages
...of life, yet prodigal of ease ? " And all, to leave what with his toil he won, " To that unfcathcr'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; " Got while his soul did...notions try, " And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy." Thil unftather'd two-lrgg'd thing (which, however, » only Aristotle's definition of man,) was married...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First ...

John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...prodigal of ease ? " And all, to leave what with his toil he won, " To that unfcathcr'd two-lcgg'd thing, a son ; " Got while his soul did huddled notions try, " And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy." This unfeather'd two-lrgg'd thing (which, however, ii only Aristotle's definition of man,) was married...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...years after the ingenious author of the Rehearsal hail drawn his picture." Shaftesbury's resentmentf was excited by the admirable poem of Absalom and Achitophel...notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. R 2 But * The dramatic works of Lope de Vega make twenty-six Volumes, besides four hundred scriptural...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...his picture." Shaftesbury's resentment! was excited by the admirable poem of Absalom and AchitopJid ; and particularly by four lines in it, that related...notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. R 2 But * The dramatic works of Lope de Vega make twenty-six volumes, besides four hundred scriptural...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...related to Lord Ashley, his father : And all to leave, what with his toil he won, To that unfeatherM, two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled...notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. , r •? ; .o- • •) T' : •• i >t •? ' •' R 2 But • . »| I '<i i. I - • * The dramatic...
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Poetical Works

John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two legg'd thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And bora a shapeless lump, like Anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolv'd to ruin or to...
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The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ...

John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...famous statesman. Note IX. And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unf eathered, two-legged thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. — P. 222. Anthony Ashley Cooper, second Earl of Shaftesbury, and son of the great statesman, whom...
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