The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1855 - Authors, English |
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... sovereign gold doth grow . 20 When past all offerings to Feretrian Jove , He Mars deposed , and arms to gowns made yield ; Successful councils did him soon approve As fit for close intrigues , as open field . 21 To suppliant Holland he ...
... sovereign gold doth grow . 20 When past all offerings to Feretrian Jove , He Mars deposed , and arms to gowns made yield ; Successful councils did him soon approve As fit for close intrigues , as open field . 21 To suppliant Holland he ...
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... sovereign prince , allay Imperial power with your paternal sway . From those great cares when ease your soul unbends , Your pleasures are design'd to noble ends : Born to command the mistress of the seas , Your thoughts themselves in ...
... sovereign prince , allay Imperial power with your paternal sway . From those great cares when ease your soul unbends , Your pleasures are design'd to noble ends : Born to command the mistress of the seas , Your thoughts themselves in ...
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... sovereign rise ; From their own order chose , in whose high state , They think themselves the second choice of fate . When our great monarch into exile went , Wit and religion suffer'd banishment . Thus once , when Troy was wrapp'd in ...
... sovereign rise ; From their own order chose , in whose high state , They think themselves the second choice of fate . When our great monarch into exile went , Wit and religion suffer'd banishment . Thus once , when Troy was wrapp'd in ...
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... sovereign knows , His awful summons they so soon obey ; So hear the scaly herd when Proteus blows , And so to pasture follow through the sea . 16 To see this fleet upon the ocean move , Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And ...
... sovereign knows , His awful summons they so soon obey ; So hear the scaly herd when Proteus blows , And so to pasture follow through the sea . 16 To see this fleet upon the ocean move , Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And ...
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... sovereign's care , Whose praise the afflicted as their comfort sing : Even those whom want might drive to just despair , Think life a blessing under such a king . 261 Meantime he sadly suffers in their grief , Out ANNUS MIRABILIS . 77.
... sovereign's care , Whose praise the afflicted as their comfort sing : Even those whom want might drive to just despair , Think life a blessing under such a king . 261 Meantime he sadly suffers in their grief , Out ANNUS MIRABILIS . 77.
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