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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... leave his favourite man , his chiefest care , More wretched than the vileft infects are ? O ! how much happier and more fafe are they ? If helpless millions must be doom'd a prey To yelling furies , and for ever burn In that fad place ...
... leave his favourite man , his chiefest care , More wretched than the vileft infects are ? O ! how much happier and more fafe are they ? If helpless millions must be doom'd a prey To yelling furies , and for ever burn In that fad place ...
Page 16
... leave ' to busy chronicles : Such , whofe fupine felicity but makes In ftory chasms , in epocha mistakes ; 5 Charles II , was grandfon by the mother's fide to Henry the IV th of France . Q'et O'er whom Time gently shakes his wings of ...
... leave ' to busy chronicles : Such , whofe fupine felicity but makes In ftory chasms , in epocha mistakes ; 5 Charles II , was grandfon by the mother's fide to Henry the IV th of France . Q'et O'er whom Time gently shakes his wings of ...
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... leave their temples empty to the foe . At length the Mufes ftand , reftor'd again To that great charge which nature did ordain ; And their lov'd Druids feem reviv'd by fate , While you difpenfe the laws , and guide the ftate . The ...
... leave their temples empty to the foe . At length the Mufes ftand , reftor'd again To that great charge which nature did ordain ; And their lov'd Druids feem reviv'd by fate , While you difpenfe the laws , and guide the ftate . The ...
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... leaves his light , and by reflection fhines . Justice , that fits and frowns where public laws Exclude foft mercy from a private cause , In your tribunal most herself does please ; There only fmiles because the lives at eafe ; And ...
... leaves his light , and by reflection fhines . Justice , that fits and frowns where public laws Exclude foft mercy from a private cause , In your tribunal most herself does please ; There only fmiles because the lives at eafe ; And ...
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... leaves did fuddenly inclofe , And peaceful olives fhaded as they rofe . How ftrangely active are the arts of peace , Whose restlefs motions lefs than wars do cease ! Peace is not freed from labour but from noife ; And war more force ...
... leaves did fuddenly inclofe , And peaceful olives fhaded as they rofe . How ftrangely active are the arts of peace , Whose restlefs motions lefs than wars do cease ! Peace is not freed from labour but from noife ; And war more force ...
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