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... NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER , & c . * ་ MY LORD , THE wishes and desires of all good men , which have attended your lordship from your first appear- ance in the world , are at length accomplished , from your obtaining those honours and ...
... NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER , & c . * ་ MY LORD , THE wishes and desires of all good men , which have attended your lordship from your first appear- ance in the world , are at length accomplished , from your obtaining those honours and ...
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... noble characters of men of wit and pleasure about the town . The like considerations have hindered me from dealing with the lamentable companions of their prose and dog- grel . I am so far from defending my poetry against them , that I ...
... noble characters of men of wit and pleasure about the town . The like considerations have hindered me from dealing with the lamentable companions of their prose and dog- grel . I am so far from defending my poetry against them , that I ...
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... noble , whose thoughts are just , whose language is pure , whose satire is pointed , and whose sense is close ; what he borrows from the ancients , he repays with usury of his own , in coin as good , and almost as universally valuable ...
... noble , whose thoughts are just , whose language is pure , whose satire is pointed , and whose sense is close ; what he borrows from the ancients , he repays with usury of his own , in coin as good , and almost as universally valuable ...
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... noble : though Homer has limited his place to Troy , and the fields about it ; his actions to forty - eight natural days , whereof twelve are holidays , or cessation from bu- siness , during the funeral of Patroclus . To pro- ceed ; the ...
... noble : though Homer has limited his place to Troy , and the fields about it ; his actions to forty - eight natural days , whereof twelve are holidays , or cessation from bu- siness , during the funeral of Patroclus . To pro- ceed ; the ...
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... noble work of Satires , which were properly so called . Thus , my lord , I have at length disengaged my- self from those antiquities of Greece ; and have proved , I hope , from the best critics , that the Ro- man satire was not borrowed ...
... noble work of Satires , which were properly so called . Thus , my lord , I have at length disengaged my- self from those antiquities of Greece ; and have proved , I hope , from the best critics , that the Ro- man satire was not borrowed ...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volym 13 John Dryden,Walter Scott Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1821 |
The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volym 13 John Dryden,Walter Scott Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1821 |
The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes ..., Volym 18 John Dryden Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2021 |
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Sida 26 - Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
Sida 178 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Sida 27 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. 21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Sida 26 - And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
Sida 26 - His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Sida 399 - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.
Sida 102 - Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
Sida 95 - ... railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own work more happily, perhaps more dexterously. I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies ; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious.
Sida 17 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Sida 386 - The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, Renews its finished course : Saturnian times Roll round again ; and mighty years, begun From their first orb, in radiant circles run. The base degenerate iron offspring ends : A golden progeny from heaven descends.