The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksW. Paterson, 1889 |
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... rising , but came not to his meridian till the Third ; after which his judgment was an overpoise to his imagination : he grew too cautious to be bold enough ; for he descended in his Fourth by slow degrees , and , in his Satires and ...
... rising , but came not to his meridian till the Third ; after which his judgment was an overpoise to his imagination : he grew too cautious to be bold enough ; for he descended in his Fourth by slow degrees , and , in his Satires and ...
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... rising higher , with the hazards of the fall . Res , non parta labore , sed relicta , was thought by a poet to be one of the requisites to a happy life . Why should a reasonable man put it into the power of Fortune to make him miserable ...
... rising higher , with the hazards of the fall . Res , non parta labore , sed relicta , was thought by a poet to be one of the requisites to a happy life . Why should a reasonable man put it into the power of Fortune to make him miserable ...
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... rising bulk of the luxuriant blade , Ere yet the aspiring offspring of the grain O'ertops the ridges of the furrowed plain ; And drains the standing waters , when they yield Too large a beverage to the drunken field . But most in autumn ...
... rising bulk of the luxuriant blade , Ere yet the aspiring offspring of the grain O'ertops the ridges of the furrowed plain ; And drains the standing waters , when they yield Too large a beverage to the drunken field . But most in autumn ...
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... rising from your annual toil , When with his golden horns , in full career , The Bull beats down the barriers of the year , And Argos * and the Dog forsake the northern sphere . But , if your care to wheat alone extend , Let Maia with ...
... rising from your annual toil , When with his golden horns , in full career , The Bull beats down the barriers of the year , And Argos * and the Dog forsake the northern sphere . But , if your care to wheat alone extend , Let Maia with ...
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... rising rivers float the nether ground , And rocks the bellowing voice of boiling seas rebound . * The father of the gods his glory shrouds , Involved in tempests , and a night of clouds ; And , from the middle darkness flashing out , By ...
... rising rivers float the nether ground , And rocks the bellowing voice of boiling seas rebound . * The father of the gods his glory shrouds , Involved in tempests , and a night of clouds ; And , from the middle darkness flashing out , By ...
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