The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3Little, Brown, & Company; Shepard, Clark & Brown, 1859 |
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... cause , why sullen Spring So long delays her flowers to bear ; Why warbling birds forget to sing , And winter storms invert the year Chloris is gone , and fate provides To make it Spring where she resides . Chloris is gone , the cruel ...
... cause , why sullen Spring So long delays her flowers to bear ; Why warbling birds forget to sing , And winter storms invert the year Chloris is gone , and fate provides To make it Spring where she resides . Chloris is gone , the cruel ...
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... cause . The prince , unable to conceal his pain , Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd his care , And sigh'd and look'd , sigh'd and look'd , Sigh'd and look'd , and sigh'd again : 110 At length , with love and wine at once oppress'd , The ...
... cause . The prince , unable to conceal his pain , Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd his care , And sigh'd and look'd , sigh'd and look'd , Sigh'd and look'd , and sigh'd again : 110 At length , with love and wine at once oppress'd , The ...
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... cause , Henceforth , be limited by wholesome laws . He first thinks fit no sonnetteer advance His censure farther than the song or dance . Your wit burlesque may one step higher climb , 15 And in his sphere may judge all doggerel rhyme ...
... cause , Henceforth , be limited by wholesome laws . He first thinks fit no sonnetteer advance His censure farther than the song or dance . Your wit burlesque may one step higher climb , 15 And in his sphere may judge all doggerel rhyme ...
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... cause inclin'd , May snuff the votes their fellows left behind : 10 Your country neighbours , when their grain grows dear , 15 May come , and find their last provision here : 80 PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . Prologue to the University of ...
... cause inclin'd , May snuff the votes their fellows left behind : 10 Your country neighbours , when their grain grows dear , 15 May come , and find their last provision here : 80 PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . Prologue to the University of ...
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... cause , And fame from science , not from fortune , draws . So Poetry , which is in Oxford made An art , in London only is a trade . 25 There haughty dunces , whose unlearned pen 30 Could ne'er spell grammar , would be reading men . Such ...
... cause , And fame from science , not from fortune , draws . So Poetry , which is in Oxford made An art , in London only is a trade . 25 There haughty dunces , whose unlearned pen 30 Could ne'er spell grammar , would be reading men . Such ...
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