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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... youth is kindled in thy breaft . Thou mak'ft the beauties of the Romans known , And England boafts of riches not her own : Thy lines have heighten'd Virgil's majefty , And Horace wonders at himfelf in thee . Thou teacheft Perfius to ...
... youth is kindled in thy breaft . Thou mak'ft the beauties of the Romans known , And England boafts of riches not her own : Thy lines have heighten'd Virgil's majefty , And Horace wonders at himfelf in thee . Thou teacheft Perfius to ...
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... youth betray By acts their age too late would with undone . X. And yet dominion was not his defign ; We owe that bleffing , not to him , but heav'n , Which to fair acts unfought rewards did join ; Rewards , that lefs to him than us were ...
... youth betray By acts their age too late would with undone . X. And yet dominion was not his defign ; We owe that bleffing , not to him , but heav'n , Which to fair acts unfought rewards did join ; Rewards , that lefs to him than us were ...
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... Youth that with joys had unacquainted been , Envy'd gray hairs that once good days had seen : We thought our fires , not with their own content , Had ere we came to age our portion spent . Nor could our nobles hope their bold attempt ...
... Youth that with joys had unacquainted been , Envy'd gray hairs that once good days had seen : We thought our fires , not with their own content , Had ere we came to age our portion spent . Nor could our nobles hope their bold attempt ...
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... youth's defired age ; But found his life too true a pilgrimage . Unconquer'd yet in that forlorn cftate , His manly courage overcame his fate . His wounds he took , like Romans on his breaft , Which by his virtue were with laurels dreft ...
... youth's defired age ; But found his life too true a pilgrimage . Unconquer'd yet in that forlorn cftate , His manly courage overcame his fate . His wounds he took , like Romans on his breaft , Which by his virtue were with laurels dreft ...
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... youth to climb . Thus heav'nly bodies do our time beget , And measure change , but share no part of it . And still it fhall without a weight increafe , Like this new - year , whofe motions never ceafe . For 1 For fince the glorious ...
... youth to climb . Thus heav'nly bodies do our time beget , And measure change , but share no part of it . And still it fhall without a weight increafe , Like this new - year , whofe motions never ceafe . For 1 For fince the glorious ...
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