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... Shak Mr. Dennis . Den . Mr. Smith . Smi Dr. Donne . Don . Mr. Southern .. South Earl of Dorfet . Dorf . Spencer . Spen Mr. Dryden . Dryd . Dr. Sprat , late Bishop , Mr. Dryden Jun . , Dryd . Jun . of Rochester . Sprat Mr. Duke . Sir ...
... Shak Mr. Dennis . Den . Mr. Smith . Smi Dr. Donne . Don . Mr. Southern .. South Earl of Dorfet . Dorf . Spencer . Spen Mr. Dryden . Dryd . Dr. Sprat , late Bishop , Mr. Dryden Jun . , Dryd . Jun . of Rochester . Sprat Mr. Duke . Sir ...
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... Shak . Haml . And where Misfortunes great and many are , Life grows a Burden , and not worth our Care .. Dryd .. ( Conq . of Gran . p . 2 . But know , young Prince , that Valour foars above What the World calls Misfortune and Affliction ...
... Shak . Haml . And where Misfortunes great and many are , Life grows a Burden , and not worth our Care .. Dryd .. ( Conq . of Gran . p . 2 . But know , young Prince , that Valour foars above What the World calls Misfortune and Affliction ...
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... Shak . Hen . 8 . AMELLUS . There grows a Flow'r in marfhy Ground , Its Name Amellus , eafy to be found . A mighty Spring works in its Roots , and cleaves The fprouting Stalk , and fhews it felf in Leaves . The Flow'r it felf is of a ...
... Shak . Hen . 8 . AMELLUS . There grows a Flow'r in marfhy Ground , Its Name Amellus , eafy to be found . A mighty Spring works in its Roots , and cleaves The fprouting Stalk , and fhews it felf in Leaves . The Flow'r it felf is of a ...
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... Shak . Jul . Cæf . I know you , Troilus , you are hot and firy ; You kindle at a Wrong ; and catch it quick , As Stubble does the Flame . Dryd . Troil & Cref . My Heart fwells at him , and my Breath grows short : But whether Fear or ...
... Shak . Jul . Cæf . I know you , Troilus , you are hot and firy ; You kindle at a Wrong ; and catch it quick , As Stubble does the Flame . Dryd . Troil & Cref . My Heart fwells at him , and my Breath grows short : But whether Fear or ...
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... Shak . & Tate Coriol . From neighb'ring Groves Shouts of Applaufe rebound , The Hills and Shores repeat the joyful Sound . Laud . Virg . Applauding Hums the crowded Valley fill'd . And now loud Shouts ran thro ' th'applauding Field ...
... Shak . & Tate Coriol . From neighb'ring Groves Shouts of Applaufe rebound , The Hills and Shores repeat the joyful Sound . Laud . Virg . Applauding Hums the crowded Valley fill'd . And now loud Shouts ran thro ' th'applauding Field ...
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Page 237 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 236 - Hell within him; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place...
Page 237 - Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
Page 149 - tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here various kinds, by various fortunes led, Commence acquaintance underneath a shed. Triumphant Tories and desponding Whigs Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
Page 235 - O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led the embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds 130 Fearless, endangered heaven's perpetual king; And put to proof his high supremacy, Whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate...
Page 358 - Clusters in the Sun, Others to tread the liquid Harvest join, The groaning Presses foam with Floods of Wine. Here are the Vines in early Flow'r descry'd, Here Grapes discolour'd on the sunny Side, And there in Autumn's richest Purple dy'd.
Page 334 - Oft, as in Airy Rings they skim the Heath, The clam'rous Plovers feel the Leaden Death: Oft as the mounting Larks their Notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little Lives in Air.
Page 294 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being born, are grown; Their mothers' labour, not their own. In this scale gold, in th' other fame does lie, The weight of that mounts this so high.
Page 10 - O'er craggy mountains, and the flowery plain ; Through brakes and thickets forc'd his way, and flew Through many a ring, where once he did pursue. In vain he oft...
Page 326 - Let India boast her plants, nor envy we The weeping amber, or the balmy tree, While by our oaks the precious loads are borne, And realms commanded which those trees adorn.