The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation, 1. köideJ. Nichol, 1866 |
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... Plot . Dryden thus had connexions both on his father's and mother's side . with that party , by derid- ing , defaming , and opposing which he afterwards gained much of his poetical glory . The poet was the eldest of fourteen children ...
... Plot . Dryden thus had connexions both on his father's and mother's side . with that party , by derid- ing , defaming , and opposing which he afterwards gained much of his poetical glory . The poet was the eldest of fourteen children ...
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... plot made us with sorrow see , As his estate , his person too was free : Him no soft thoughts , no gratitude could move ; To gold he fled from beauty and from love ; Yet , failing there , he keeps his freedom still , Forced to live ...
... plot made us with sorrow see , As his estate , his person too was free : Him no soft thoughts , no gratitude could move ; To gold he fled from beauty and from love ; Yet , failing there , he keeps his freedom still , Forced to live ...
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... plot requires . Plots , true or false , are necessary things , To raise up commonwealths , and ruin kings . The inhabitants of old Jerusalem > Were Jebusites ; the town so call'd from them ; And theirs the native right But when the ...
... plot requires . Plots , true or false , are necessary things , To raise up commonwealths , and ruin kings . The inhabitants of old Jerusalem > Were Jebusites ; the town so call'd from them ; And theirs the native right But when the ...
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... Plot , the nation's curse , Bad in itself , but represented worse ; 36 92 100 110 Raised in extremes , and in extremes decried : With oaths affirm'd , with dying vows denied ; Not weigh'd nor winnow'd by the multitude ; But swallow'd in ...
... Plot , the nation's curse , Bad in itself , but represented worse ; 36 92 100 110 Raised in extremes , and in extremes decried : With oaths affirm'd , with dying vows denied ; Not weigh'd nor winnow'd by the multitude ; But swallow'd in ...
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... Plot , which fail'd for want of common sense , Had yet a deep and dangerous consequence : For as , when raging fevers boil the blood , The standing lake soon floats into a flood , And every hostile humour , which before Slept quiet in ...
... Plot , which fail'd for want of common sense , Had yet a deep and dangerous consequence : For as , when raging fevers boil the blood , The standing lake soon floats into a flood , And every hostile humour , which before Slept quiet in ...
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