The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3Little, Brown, & Company; Shepard, Clark & Brown, 1859 |
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... Fortune's wheel , She sinks there , she sinks , she turns up her keel . Who ever beheld so noble a sight , As this so brave , so bloody sea - fight ! INCANTATION IN EDIPUS . TIR . CHOOSE the darkest part o ' th ' grove , Such as ghosts ...
... Fortune's wheel , She sinks there , she sinks , she turns up her keel . Who ever beheld so noble a sight , As this so brave , so bloody sea - fight ! INCANTATION IN EDIPUS . TIR . CHOOSE the darkest part o ' th ' grove , Such as ghosts ...
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... fortune of the new , And hope it is below your aim to hit 5 At untaught nature with your practis'd wit : Our naked Indians , then , when wits appear , Would as soon choose to have the Spaniards here . ' Tis true , you have marks enough ...
... fortune of the new , And hope it is below your aim to hit 5 At untaught nature with your practis'd wit : Our naked Indians , then , when wits appear , Would as soon choose to have the Spaniards here . ' Tis true , you have marks enough ...
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... fortunes you can suit your mind : Content to see , and shun , those ills we show , And crimes on theatres alone to know . With joy we bring what our dead authors writ , And beg from you the value of their wit : That Shakespeare's ...
... fortunes you can suit your mind : Content to see , and shun , those ills we show , And crimes on theatres alone to know . With joy we bring what our dead authors writ , And beg from you the value of their wit : That Shakespeare's ...
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... money from the play . The fate , which governs poets , thought it fit He should not raise his fortunes by his wit . VOL . III . 5 25 The clergy thrive , and the litigious bar ; Dull PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . 65 Prologue to Aurengzebe.
... money from the play . The fate , which governs poets , thought it fit He should not raise his fortunes by his wit . VOL . III . 5 25 The clergy thrive , and the litigious bar ; Dull PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . 65 Prologue to Aurengzebe.
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... 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 build their poems the Lucretian way ; So ...
... 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 build their poems the Lucretian way ; So ...
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