The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksW. Paterson, 1889 |
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... leave us in an eagerness of learning more ; pleased with what we hear , but not satisfied , because you will not speak so much as we could wish . I dare not excuse your Lordship from this fault ; for though it is none in you , it is one ...
... leave us in an eagerness of learning more ; pleased with what we hear , but not satisfied , because you will not speak so much as we could wish . I dare not excuse your Lordship from this fault ; for though it is none in you , it is one ...
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... leaves the world before he has well tried it , and runs headlong into religion . He who carries a maidenhead into a cloister is sometimes apt to lose it there , and to repent of his repentance . He only is like to endure austerities who ...
... leaves the world before he has well tried it , and runs headlong into religion . He who carries a maidenhead into a cloister is sometimes apt to lose it there , and to repent of his repentance . He only is like to endure austerities who ...
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... Leave , for a while , O Pan ! thy loved abode ; almost in the beginning , is ill imitated by his successors , Lucan and Statius . They dedicated to tyrants ; and their flatteries are gross and fulsome . Virgil's address is both more ...
... Leave , for a while , O Pan ! thy loved abode ; almost in the beginning , is ill imitated by his successors , Lucan and Statius . They dedicated to tyrants ; and their flatteries are gross and fulsome . Virgil's address is both more ...
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... hell presume of such a reign ; Nor let so dire a thirst of empire move Thy mind , to leave thy kindred gods above ; 25 30 35 40 45 50 Though Greece admires Elysium's blest retreat , 55 Though Proserpine BOOK I. 28 GEORGICS .
... hell presume of such a reign ; Nor let so dire a thirst of empire move Thy mind , to leave thy kindred gods above ; 25 30 35 40 45 50 Though Greece admires Elysium's blest retreat , 55 Though Proserpine BOOK I. 28 GEORGICS .
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... leaves the liquid gold ; Removed from human reach the cheerful fire , And from the rivers bade the wine retire ; That studious need might useful arts explore ; From furrowed fields to reap the foodful store , And force the veins of ...
... leaves the liquid gold ; Removed from human reach the cheerful fire , And from the rivers bade the wine retire ; That studious need might useful arts explore ; From furrowed fields to reap the foodful store , And force the veins of ...
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