The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3Little, Brown, & Company; Shepard, Clark & Brown, 1859 |
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... pass his honest word , The pawn'd revenue sums afford , And then , come kiss my breech . So have I seen a king on chess ( His rooks and knights withdrawn , His queen and bishops in distress ) Shifting about , grow less and less , With ...
... pass his honest word , The pawn'd revenue sums afford , And then , come kiss my breech . So have I seen a king on chess ( His rooks and knights withdrawn , His queen and bishops in distress ) Shifting about , grow less and less , With ...
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John Dryden. Drums and trumpets toll the knell , And culverins the passing bell . Now , now they grapple , and now board amain ; Blow up the hatches , they ' re off all again : Give them a broadside , the dice run at all , 15 Down comes ...
John Dryden. Drums and trumpets toll the knell , And culverins the passing bell . Now , now they grapple , and now board amain ; Blow up the hatches , they ' re off all again : Give them a broadside , the dice run at all , 15 Down comes ...
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... pass a vote to put all prologues down : For who can show me , since they first were writ , They e'er converted one hard - hearted wit ? Yet the world's mended well ; in former days 5 Good prologues were as scarce as now good plays . For ...
... pass a vote to put all prologues down : For who can show me , since they first were writ , They e'er converted one hard - hearted wit ? Yet the world's mended well ; in former days 5 Good prologues were as scarce as now good plays . For ...
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... pass for current wheresoe'er they go , When to your bounteous hands their stamps they owe . EPILOGUE TO THE INDIAN EMPEROR . BY A MERCURY . To all and singular in this full meeting , Ladies and gallants , Phoebus sends ye greeting . To ...
... pass for current wheresoe'er they go , When to your bounteous hands their stamps they owe . EPILOGUE TO THE INDIAN EMPEROR . BY A MERCURY . To all and singular in this full meeting , Ladies and gallants , Phoebus sends ye greeting . To ...
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... man meets in his dish each day , Are yet the great regalios of a play ; In which to poets you but just appear , To prize that highest , which cost them so dear : Fops in the town more easily will pass ; One PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . 47.
... man meets in his dish each day , Are yet the great regalios of a play ; In which to poets you but just appear , To prize that highest , which cost them so dear : Fops in the town more easily will pass ; One PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . 47.
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