The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English poetry |
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... bold 7 Greek who did the Eaft fubdue , And made to battles fuch heroic hafte , As if on wings of victory he flew , XIV . He fought fecure of fortune as of fame : Still by new maps , the island might be fhewn , Of conquefts , which he ...
... bold 7 Greek who did the Eaft fubdue , And made to battles fuch heroic hafte , As if on wings of victory he flew , XIV . He fought fecure of fortune as of fame : Still by new maps , the island might be fhewn , Of conquefts , which he ...
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... bold rival of the British main , Now tamely glad her unjuft claim to cease , And buy our friendship with her idol , gain . 8 It is faid that at the fiege of Bologna in 1512 , a mine blew up that part of the wall of the church of Sancta ...
... bold rival of the British main , Now tamely glad her unjuft claim to cease , And buy our friendship with her idol , gain . 8 It is faid that at the fiege of Bologna in 1512 , a mine blew up that part of the wall of the church of Sancta ...
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... bold attempt Who ruin'd crowns would coronets exempt : For when by their defigning leaders taught To ftrike at pow'r which for themfelves they fought , The vulgar , gull'd into rebellion , arm'd ; Their blood to action by the prize was ...
... bold attempt Who ruin'd crowns would coronets exempt : For when by their defigning leaders taught To ftrike at pow'r which for themfelves they fought , The vulgar , gull'd into rebellion , arm'd ; Their blood to action by the prize was ...
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... bold , how masterly are the ftrokes of Virgil ! We fee the objects he prefents us with in their native figures , in their proper motions ; but fo we see them , as our own eyes could never have beheld them fo beautiful in themfelves . We ...
... bold , how masterly are the ftrokes of Virgil ! We fee the objects he prefents us with in their native figures , in their proper motions ; but fo we see them , as our own eyes could never have beheld them fo beautiful in themfelves . We ...
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... - tice of fome words , which I have innovated ( if it be too bold for me to fay refined ) upon his Latin ; which , as I offer not to introduce into English profe , fo fo I hope they are neither improper , nor altogether 48 A LETTER to.
... - tice of fome words , which I have innovated ( if it be too bold for me to fay refined ) upon his Latin ; which , as I offer not to introduce into English profe , fo fo I hope they are neither improper , nor altogether 48 A LETTER to.
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