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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... rule and measure to the reft . XXVII . When fuch heroic virtue heaven fets out , The ftars , like commons , fullenly obey ; Because it drains them when it comes about , And therefore is a tax they feldom pay . 9 The treaty of alliance ...
... rule and measure to the reft . XXVII . When fuch heroic virtue heaven fets out , The ftars , like commons , fullenly obey ; Because it drains them when it comes about , And therefore is a tax they feldom pay . 9 The treaty of alliance ...
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... rule his own : Recovering hardly what he loft before , His right endears it much ; his purchase more . Inur'd to fuffer ere he came to reign , No rafh procedure will his actions ftain : To business ripen'd by digeftive thought , His ...
... rule his own : Recovering hardly what he loft before , His right endears it much ; his purchase more . Inur'd to fuffer ere he came to reign , No rafh procedure will his actions ftain : To business ripen'd by digeftive thought , His ...
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... rules of policy , you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind . I The ship in which Charles the Second returned from exile . 2 Henry of Oatlands , duke of Gloucefter , third fon of Charles the fift , landed at Dover with his ...
... rules of policy , you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind . I The ship in which Charles the Second returned from exile . 2 Henry of Oatlands , duke of Gloucefter , third fon of Charles the fift , landed at Dover with his ...
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... . O truly royal ! who behold the law And rule of beings in your maker's mind : And thence , like limbecs , rich ideas draw , To fit the levell'd ufe of human - kind . 167. But 167 . But firft the toils of war we must 76 ANNUS MIRABILIS .
... . O truly royal ! who behold the law And rule of beings in your maker's mind : And thence , like limbecs , rich ideas draw , To fit the levell'd ufe of human - kind . 167. But 167 . But firft the toils of war we must 76 ANNUS MIRABILIS .
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... rules ; For they are fops , the other are but fools . Who would not be as filly as Dunbar ? As dull as Monmouth , rather than Sir Carr 2 ? The cunning courtier fhould be flighted too , Who with dull knavery makes so much ado ; Till the ...
... rules ; For they are fops , the other are but fools . Who would not be as filly as Dunbar ? As dull as Monmouth , rather than Sir Carr 2 ? The cunning courtier fhould be flighted too , Who with dull knavery makes so much ado ; Till the ...
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