The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksW. Paterson, 1889 |
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... turn of familiarity . Much less ought the low phrases and terms of art , that are adapted to husbandry , have any place in such a work as the Georgic , which is not to appear in the natural simplicity and nakedness of its subject , but ...
... turn of familiarity . Much less ought the low phrases and terms of art , that are adapted to husbandry , have any place in such a work as the Georgic , which is not to appear in the natural simplicity and nakedness of its subject , but ...
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... turn The fruitful soil , and when to sow the corn ; The care of sheep , of oxen , and of kine , And how to raise on elms the teeming vine ; The poetry of this . Book is more sublime than any part of Virgil , if I have any taste . And if ...
... turn The fruitful soil , and when to sow the corn ; The care of sheep , of oxen , and of kine , And how to raise on elms the teeming vine ; The poetry of this . Book is more sublime than any part of Virgil , if I have any taste . And if ...
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... turn ; That , while the turf lies open and unbound , Succeeding suns may bake the mellow ground . But , if the soil be barren , only scar The surface , and but lightly print the share , When cold Arcturus rises with the sun ; Lest ...
... turn ; That , while the turf lies open and unbound , Succeeding suns may bake the mellow ground . But , if the soil be barren , only scar The surface , and but lightly print the share , When cold Arcturus rises with the sun ; Lest ...
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... turn round the globe ; one seen to rise 330 O'er Scythian hills , and one in Libyan skies ; The first sublime in heaven , the last is whirled Below the regions of the nether world . Around our pole the spiry Dragon glides , And , like a ...
... turn round the globe ; one seen to rise 330 O'er Scythian hills , and one in Libyan skies ; The first sublime in heaven , the last is whirled Below the regions of the nether world . Around our pole the spiry Dragon glides , And , like a ...
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... turn . No laws , divine or human , can restrain From necessary works the labouring swain . Even holidays and feasts permission yield To float the meadows , or to fence the field , To fire the brambles , snare the birds , and steep 365 ...
... turn . No laws , divine or human , can restrain From necessary works the labouring swain . Even holidays and feasts permission yield To float the meadows , or to fence the field , To fire the brambles , snare the birds , and steep 365 ...
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