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... swain was no great scholar . After all , I must confess , that the boorish dialect of Theocritus has a secret charm in it , which the Roman language cannot imitate , though Virgil has drawn it down as low as possibly he could ; as in ...
... swain was no great scholar . After all , I must confess , that the boorish dialect of Theocritus has a secret charm in it , which the Roman language cannot imitate , though Virgil has drawn it down as low as possibly he could ; as in ...
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... swain , I sought not freedom , nor aspired to gain : Though many a victim from my folds was bought , And many a cheese to country markets brought , Yet all the little that I got , I spent , And still returned as empty as I went ...
... swain , I sought not freedom , nor aspired to gain : Though many a victim from my folds was bought , And many a cheese to country markets brought , Yet all the little that I got , I spent , And still returned as empty as I went ...
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... swain . While , from the neighbouring rock , with rural songs , The pruner's voice the pleasing dream prolongs , Stock - doves and turtles tell their amorous pain , And , from the lofty elms , of love complain . TITYRUS . The ...
... swain . While , from the neighbouring rock , with rural songs , The pruner's voice the pleasing dream prolongs , Stock - doves and turtles tell their amorous pain , And , from the lofty elms , of love complain . TITYRUS . The ...
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... swain , The fair Alexis loved , but loved in vain ; And underneath the beechen shade , alone , Thus to the woods and mountains made his moan : - Is this , unkind Alexis , my reward ? And must I die unpitied , and unheard ? Now the green ...
... swain , The fair Alexis loved , but loved in vain ; And underneath the beechen shade , alone , Thus to the woods and mountains made his moan : - Is this , unkind Alexis , my reward ? And must I die unpitied , and unheard ? Now the green ...
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... agree , And both in nosegays shall be bound for thee . Ah , Corydon ! ah , poor unhappy swain ! Alexis will thy homely gifts disdain : * That is , of short continuance . Nor , should'st thou offer all thy little store , 376 PASTORAL II .
... agree , And both in nosegays shall be bound for thee . Ah , Corydon ! ah , poor unhappy swain ! Alexis will thy homely gifts disdain : * That is , of short continuance . Nor , should'st thou offer all thy little store , 376 PASTORAL II .
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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.