The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksW. Paterson, 1889 |
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... ( according to our homely saying ) his full swing at this poem , beginning it about the age of thirty - five , and scarce concluding it before he arrived at forty . It is observed both of him and Horace ( and I believe it will DEDICATION.
... ( according to our homely saying ) his full swing at this poem , beginning it about the age of thirty - five , and scarce concluding it before he arrived at forty . It is observed both of him and Horace ( and I believe it will DEDICATION.
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... observation , still increases . His succeeding years afford him little more than the stubble of his own harvest : yet , if his constitution be healthful , his mind may still retain a decent vigour ; and the gleanings of that Ephraim ...
... observation , still increases . His succeeding years afford him little more than the stubble of his own harvest : yet , if his constitution be healthful , his mind may still retain a decent vigour ; and the gleanings of that Ephraim ...
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... observe the least vanity , or the least assuming , in anything you said , but a natural unaffected modesty , full of good sense , and well digested ; a clearness of notion expressed in ready and unstudied words . No man has complained ...
... observe the least vanity , or the least assuming , in anything you said , but a natural unaffected modesty , full of good sense , and well digested ; a clearness of notion expressed in ready and unstudied words . No man has complained ...
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... observations of mankind , I have ever found , that such as are not rather too full of spirit when they are young , degenerate to dulness in their age . Sobriety in our riper years is the effect of a well - concocted warmth : but , where ...
... observations of mankind , I have ever found , that such as are not rather too full of spirit when they are young , degenerate to dulness in their age . Sobriety in our riper years is the effect of a well - concocted warmth : but , where ...
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... observed in former times , that none have been so greedy of employments , and of managing the public , as they who have least deserved their stations . But such only merit to be called patriots under whom we see their country flourish ...
... observed in former times , that none have been so greedy of employments , and of managing the public , as they who have least deserved their stations . But such only merit to be called patriots under whom we see their country flourish ...
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