The Poems of John Dryden ...Press of C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... look like a flattering stone - horse , which , being backed with a trooper , does but gild the battle . I am mistaken if nonsense is not here pretty thick sown . Sure the poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and ...
... look like a flattering stone - horse , which , being backed with a trooper , does but gild the battle . I am mistaken if nonsense is not here pretty thick sown . Sure the poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and ...
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... look back for support to his former trade ; and having waited about two years , either considering himself as discountenanced by the public , or perhaps expecting a second Revo- lution , he produced ' Don Sebastian ' in 1690 ; and in ...
... look back for support to his former trade ; and having waited about two years , either considering himself as discountenanced by the public , or perhaps expecting a second Revo- lution , he produced ' Don Sebastian ' in 1690 ; and in ...
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... look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence , and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches . With his praises of others and of himself is always intermingled a strain of discontent and lamentation ...
... look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence , and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches . With his praises of others and of himself is always intermingled a strain of discontent and lamentation ...
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... look round him for images which he cannot find , and what he has he distorts by endeavouring to enlarge them . " He is , " he says , " petrified with grief ; " but the marble sometimes relents , and trickles in a joke . ' The sons of ...
... look round him for images which he cannot find , and what he has he distorts by endeavouring to enlarge them . " He is , " he says , " petrified with grief ; " but the marble sometimes relents , and trickles in a joke . ' The sons of ...
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... look aside , and so their footing miss . ' Of the images which the two following citations afford , the first is elegant , the second magnificent ; whether either be just , let the reader judge : 6 What precious drops are these , Which ...
... look aside , and so their footing miss . ' Of the images which the two following citations afford , the first is elegant , the second magnificent ; whether either be just , let the reader judge : 6 What precious drops are these , Which ...
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