The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3Little, Brown, & Company; Shepard, Clark & Brown, 1859 |
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Page 67
... took pains to graff upon his kind . True fops help nature's work , and go to school , To file and finish God Almighty's fool . Yet none Sir Fopling him , or him can call ; He's knight o ' the shire , and represents ye all . From each he ...
... took pains to graff upon his kind . True fops help nature's work , and go to school , To file and finish God Almighty's fool . Yet none Sir Fopling him , or him can call ; He's knight o ' the shire , and represents ye all . From each he ...
Page 93
... took it up , resigns his bays . Kings make their poets whom themselves think fit , But ' tis your suffrage makes authentic wit . EPILOGUE , SPOKEN BY THE SAME . No poor Dutch peasant , wing'd with all his fear , Flies with more haste ...
... took it up , resigns his bays . Kings make their poets whom themselves think fit , But ' tis your suffrage makes authentic wit . EPILOGUE , SPOKEN BY THE SAME . No poor Dutch peasant , wing'd with all his fear , Flies with more haste ...
Page 119
... in as declining a state as his health ; they were both spoken by Mr. Cibber , then a very young ac- tor , much to Dryden's satisfaction . D. Quack Maurus , though he never took degrees In either PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . 119 .
... in as declining a state as his health ; they were both spoken by Mr. Cibber , then a very young ac- tor , much to Dryden's satisfaction . D. Quack Maurus , though he never took degrees In either PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES . 119 .
Page 120
John Dryden. Quack Maurus , though he never took degrees In either of our universities ; 20 Yet to be shown by some kind wit he looks , Because he play'd the fool , and writ three books . But , if he would be worth a Poet's pen , He must ...
John Dryden. Quack Maurus , though he never took degrees In either of our universities ; 20 Yet to be shown by some kind wit he looks , Because he play'd the fool , and writ three books . But , if he would be worth a Poet's pen , He must ...
Page 122
... Took all the ungodly pains , and got the 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 ...
... Took all the ungodly pains , and got the 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 ...
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