Poems and Prose of John DrydenPenguin Books, 1955 - 356 pages |
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Page 48
... bear . Yet , since they will divert my native course , ' Tis time to show I am not good by force . Those heaped affronts that haughty subjects bring , Are burdens for a camel , not a king ; Kings are the public pillars of the state ...
... bear . Yet , since they will divert my native course , ' Tis time to show I am not good by force . Those heaped affronts that haughty subjects bring , Are burdens for a camel , not a king ; Kings are the public pillars of the state ...
Page 67
... bear unpunished wrong ; Look humbly upward , see His will disclose The forfeit first , and then the fine impose ; A ... bears proportion must be paid , And infinite with infinite be weighed . See then the Deist lost , remorse for vice ...
... bear unpunished wrong ; Look humbly upward , see His will disclose The forfeit first , and then the fine impose ; A ... bears proportion must be paid , And infinite with infinite be weighed . See then the Deist lost , remorse for vice ...
Page 331
... bear the marks of sov'reignty from heav'n . My elder brothers my forerunners came ; Rough - draughts of nature , ill designed , and lame ; Blown off like blossoms never made to bear ; Till I came finished ; her last - laboured care ...
... bear the marks of sov'reignty from heav'n . My elder brothers my forerunners came ; Rough - draughts of nature , ill designed , and lame ; Blown off like blossoms never made to bear ; Till I came finished ; her last - laboured care ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
PROLOGUE TO THE TEMPEST 1670 | 97 |
PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY | 104 |
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