The Poetical Works of DrydenHoughton Mifflin Company, 1950 - 1095 pages |
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Page 117
... laws . For laws are only made to punish those 610 Who serve the king , and to protect his foes . If any leisure time he had from pow'r , ( Because ' t is sin to misimploy an hour , ) His business was , by writing , to persuade That ...
... laws . For laws are only made to punish those 610 Who serve the king , and to protect his foes . If any leisure time he had from pow'r , ( Because ' t is sin to misimploy an hour , ) His business was , by writing , to persuade That ...
Page 164
... laws divine ? Which in that sacred volume are contain'd ; Sufficient , clear , and for that use ordain'd . But stay : the Deist here will Objection of urge anew , the Deist . 170 No supernatural worship can be true ; Because a general law ...
... laws divine ? Which in that sacred volume are contain'd ; Sufficient , clear , and for that use ordain'd . But stay : the Deist here will Objection of urge anew , the Deist . 170 No supernatural worship can be true ; Because a general law ...
Page 312
... law took cog- nizance of lampoons , being provok'd to it by the petulancy of Cassius Severus , who had defam'd many illustrious persons of both sexes in his writings . " The law to which Tacitus refers was Lex læsæ Majestatis ; commonly ...
... law took cog- nizance of lampoons , being provok'd to it by the petulancy of Cassius Severus , who had defam'd many illustrious persons of both sexes in his writings . " The law to which Tacitus refers was Lex læsæ Majestatis ; commonly ...
Contents
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH | xvii |
EARLY POEMS | liv |
UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD | 1 |
Copyright | |
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