The Works of John Dryden, in Verse and Prose: With a Life, 2. köideHarper, 1847 |
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... Roman dictator at the ploughtail . He delivers the meanest of his precepts with a kind of grandeur : he breaks the clods , and tosses the dung about , with an air of gracefulness . His THE POEMS OF DRYDEN . TRANSLATIONS FROM VIRGIL ...
... Roman dictator at the ploughtail . He delivers the meanest of his precepts with a kind of grandeur : he breaks the clods , and tosses the dung about , with an air of gracefulness . His THE POEMS OF DRYDEN . TRANSLATIONS FROM VIRGIL ...
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... Roman em- pire , that he might reward his veteran troops for their past service , he distributed among them all the lands that lay about Cremona and Mantua ; turning out the right owners for having sided with his enemies . Virgil was a ...
... Roman em- pire , that he might reward his veteran troops for their past service , he distributed among them all the lands that lay about Cremona and Mantua ; turning out the right owners for having sided with his enemies . Virgil was a ...
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... Roman bodies , and just heav'n thought To fatten twice those fields with Roman blood . Then , after length of time , the lab'ring swains , Who turn the turfs of those unhappy plains , Shall rusty piles from the plough'd furrows take ...
... Roman bodies , and just heav'n thought To fatten twice those fields with Roman blood . Then , after length of time , the lab'ring swains , Who turn the turfs of those unhappy plains , Shall rusty piles from the plough'd furrows take ...
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... Roman cities sing . The nature of the sev'ral soils now see Their strength , their colour , their fertility : And first for heath , and barren hilly ground , Where meagre clay and flinty stones abound , Where the poor soil all succour ...
... Roman cities sing . The nature of the sev'ral soils now see Their strength , their colour , their fertility : And first for heath , and barren hilly ground , Where meagre clay and flinty stones abound , Where the poor soil all succour ...
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... Roman youth , deriv'd from ruin'd Troy , In rude Saturnian rhymes express their joy : With taunts , and laughter loud , their audience please , Deform'd with vizards , cut from barks of trees : In jolly hymns they praise the god of wine ...
... Roman youth , deriv'd from ruin'd Troy , In rude Saturnian rhymes express their joy : With taunts , and laughter loud , their audience please , Deform'd with vizards , cut from barks of trees : In jolly hymns they praise the god of wine ...
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