The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3Little, Brown, & Company; Shepard, Clark & Brown, 1859 |
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... ground , I faint , I lag , And feebly drag The ponderous orb around . MOMUS . All , all of a piece throughout : Thy chase had a beast in view ; 80 85 [ Pointing to Diana . Thy wars brought nothing about ; Thy lovers were all untrue ...
... ground , I faint , I lag , And feebly drag The ponderous orb around . MOMUS . All , all of a piece throughout : Thy chase had a beast in view ; 80 85 [ Pointing to Diana . Thy wars brought nothing about ; Thy lovers were all untrue ...
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... ground , To gentle slumbers call . II . I LOOK'D and saw within the book of fate , When many days did lour , When lo ! one happy hour Leap'd up , and smil❜d to save the sinking state ; A day shall come when in thy power Thy cruel foes ...
... ground , To gentle slumbers call . II . I LOOK'D and saw within the book of fate , When many days did lour , When lo ! one happy hour Leap'd up , and smil❜d to save the sinking state ; A day shall come when in thy power Thy cruel foes ...
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... ground , Their trumpets languish in the sound : They fly , they fly , they fly , they fly ; Victoria , Victoria , the bold Britons cry . Now the victory ' s won , To the plunder we run : 5 10 We return to our lasses like fortunate ...
... ground , Their trumpets languish in the sound : They fly , they fly , they fly , they fly ; Victoria , Victoria , the bold Britons cry . Now the victory ' s won , To the plunder we run : 5 10 We return to our lasses like fortunate ...
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... ground , and thence new branches shoot ; So from old Shakespeare's honour'd dust , this day Springs up and buds a new reviving play : Shakespeare , who ( taught by none ) did first impart To Fletcher wit , to labouring Jonson art . He ...
... ground , and thence new branches shoot ; So from old Shakespeare's honour'd dust , this day Springs up and buds a new reviving play : Shakespeare , who ( taught by none ) did first impart To Fletcher wit , to labouring Jonson art . He ...
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... ground might be to lose the race . They then , who of each trip the advantage take , Find but those faults , which they want wit to make . EPILOGUE TO THE WILD GALLANT , WHEN REVIVED . Of 50 PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES .
... ground might be to lose the race . They then , who of each trip the advantage take , Find but those faults , which they want wit to make . EPILOGUE TO THE WILD GALLANT , WHEN REVIVED . Of 50 PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES .
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