The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3Little, Brown, & Company; Shepard, Clark & Brown, 1859 |
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Page 32
... SHE . Yet , at least , ' tis a pleasure to know That you are not unhappy alone : For the nymph you adore Is as wretched , and more ; And counts all your sufferings her own . HE . O ye gods , let me suffer for 32 SONGS .
... SHE . Yet , at least , ' tis a pleasure to know That you are not unhappy alone : For the nymph you adore Is as wretched , and more ; And counts all your sufferings her own . HE . O ye gods , let me suffer for 32 SONGS .
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... art ; ' Twas writ in haste , but with an English heart : And least hope wit ; in Dutchmen that would be As much improper , as would honesty . EPILOGUE TO AMBOYNA . A POET once the Spartans led * 56 PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES .
... art ; ' Twas writ in haste , but with an English heart : And least hope wit ; in Dutchmen that would be As much improper , as would honesty . EPILOGUE TO AMBOYNA . A POET once the Spartans led * 56 PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES .
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... least . Thus did the thriving malady prevail , The court , its head , the Poets but the tail . The sin was of our native growth , ' tis true ; The scandal of the sin was wholly new . Misses they were , but modestly conceal'd ; Whitehall ...
... least . Thus did the thriving malady prevail , The court , its head , the Poets but the tail . The sin was of our native growth , ' tis true ; The scandal of the sin was wholly new . Misses they were , but modestly conceal'd ; Whitehall ...
Page 124
... least thinking I found , some- thing that was more pleasing in them than my ordinary pro- ductions , I encouraged myself to renew my old acquaintance with Lucretius and Virgil ; and immediately fixed upon some parts of them , which had ...
... least thinking I found , some- thing that was more pleasing in them than my ordinary pro- ductions , I encouraged myself to renew my old acquaintance with Lucretius and Virgil ; and immediately fixed upon some parts of them , which had ...
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... least , if both these considerations should fail , that my own is of a piece with his , and that if he were living , and an Englishman , they are such as he would probably have written . For , after all , a translator is to make his ...
... least , if both these considerations should fail , that my own is of a piece with his , and that if he were living , and an Englishman , they are such as he would probably have written . For , after all , a translator is to make his ...
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