The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksW. Paterson, 1889 |
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... labours at your feet . But my rashness has succeeded beyond my hopes ; and you have been pleased not to suffer an old man to go dis- contented out of the world , for want of that protection of which he had been so long am- bitious . I ...
... labours at your feet . But my rashness has succeeded beyond my hopes ; and you have been pleased not to suffer an old man to go dis- contented out of the world , for want of that protection of which he had been so long am- bitious . I ...
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... labours of his Trojans to those of bees and pismires , here he compares the labours of the bees to those of the Cyclops . In short , the last Georgic was a good prelude to the Æncïs , and very well showed what [ The proper reading is ...
... labours of his Trojans to those of bees and pismires , here he compares the labours of the bees to those of the Cyclops . In short , the last Georgic was a good prelude to the Æncïs , and very well showed what [ The proper reading is ...
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... labour , and renew the soil . Yet sprinkle sordid ashes all around , And load with fattening dung thy fallow ground . * Dr. Carey reads " ear . " I have not disturbed the text , though his conjecture is ingenious . 100 105 110 115 Thus ...
... labour , and renew the soil . Yet sprinkle sordid ashes all around , And load with fattening dung thy fallow ground . * Dr. Carey reads " ear . " I have not disturbed the text , though his conjecture is ingenious . 100 105 110 115 Thus ...
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... labours with a grudging eye ; Nor his , who ploughs across the furrowed grounds , And on the back of earth inflicts new wounds ; For he , with frequent exercise , commands The unwilling soil , and tames the stubborn lands . Ye swains ...
... labours with a grudging eye ; Nor his , who ploughs across the furrowed grounds , And on the back of earth inflicts new wounds ; For he , with frequent exercise , commands The unwilling soil , and tames the stubborn lands . Ye swains ...
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... , ( What cannot endless labour , urged by need ? ) First Ceres taught , the ground with grain tosow , And armed with iron shares the crooked plough ; 220 When now Dodonian oaks no more supplied Their mast , 888 28 BOOK I. GEORGICS .
... , ( What cannot endless labour , urged by need ? ) First Ceres taught , the ground with grain tosow , And armed with iron shares the crooked plough ; 220 When now Dodonian oaks no more supplied Their mast , 888 28 BOOK I. GEORGICS .
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