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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... common tomb had found , The firft fmall profpect of a rifing hill With various notes of joy the ark did fill : Yet when that flood in its own depths was drown'd , It left behind it falfe and flipp'ry ground ; And the more folemn pomp ...
... common tomb had found , The firft fmall profpect of a rifing hill With various notes of joy the ark did fill : Yet when that flood in its own depths was drown'd , It left behind it falfe and flipp'ry ground ; And the more folemn pomp ...
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... COMMON- COUNCIL of it . As amature to S perhaps I am the firft whoever prefented a work of this nature to the metropolis of any nation ; fo it is likewife confonant to juftice , that he who was to give the first example of fuch a de ...
... COMMON- COUNCIL of it . As amature to S perhaps I am the firft whoever prefented a work of this nature to the metropolis of any nation ; fo it is likewife confonant to juftice , that he who was to give the first example of fuch a de ...
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... common notions . And certainly , as thofe , who , in a logical dispute keep in general terms , would hide a fallacy ; fo thofe , who do it in any poetical defcrip- tion , would veil their ignorance . Defcriptas fervare vices operumque ...
... common notions . And certainly , as thofe , who , in a logical dispute keep in general terms , would hide a fallacy ; fo thofe , who do it in any poetical defcrip- tion , would veil their ignorance . Defcriptas fervare vices operumque ...
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... England , and condemned to die by judge Jefferies , who treated him in a very unbecoming manner , hanged at Tyburn on the twentieth of June , 1684 . He was Ne No common coxcomb must be mention'd here : Not the 98 ESSAY upon SATIRE .
... England , and condemned to die by judge Jefferies , who treated him in a very unbecoming manner , hanged at Tyburn on the twentieth of June , 1684 . He was Ne No common coxcomb must be mention'd here : Not the 98 ESSAY upon SATIRE .
Page 99
... common coxcomb must be mention'd here : Not the dull train of dancing sparks appear ; Nor Auttering officers who never fight ; Of fuch a wretched rabble who would write ? Much lefs half wits : that's more against our rules ; For they ...
... common coxcomb must be mention'd here : Not the dull train of dancing sparks appear ; Nor Auttering officers who never fight ; Of fuch a wretched rabble who would write ? Much lefs half wits : that's more against our rules ; For they ...
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