A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. Walsh. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Montague. HalifaxJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1793 |
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... praise . " In a general furvey of Dryden's labours , " fays that judicious and claffical critic , " he appears to have a mind very comprehensive by nature , and much enriched with acquired knowledge . His compofitions are the effects of ...
... praise . " In a general furvey of Dryden's labours , " fays that judicious and claffical critic , " he appears to have a mind very comprehensive by nature , and much enriched with acquired knowledge . His compofitions are the effects of ...
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... praise , Though not his own , all tongues befides do raife : Than whom great Alexander may seem less ; Who conquer'd men , but not their languages . In his mouth nations fpake ; his tongue might be Interpreter to Greece , France , Italy ...
... praise , Though not his own , all tongues befides do raife : Than whom great Alexander may seem less ; Who conquer'd men , but not their languages . In his mouth nations fpake ; his tongue might be Interpreter to Greece , France , Italy ...
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... praise we offer to his name , Hath render'd too authentic by its choice . III . Though in his praise no man can liberal be , Since they , whose Muses have the highest flown , Add not to his immortal memory , But do an act of friendship ...
... praise we offer to his name , Hath render'd too authentic by its choice . III . Though in his praise no man can liberal be , Since they , whose Muses have the highest flown , Add not to his immortal memory , But do an act of friendship ...
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... praise the best of kings : Her melting ftrains in you a tomb have found , And lie like bees in their own fweetnels drown'd . He that brought peace , all difcord could atone , His name is mulic of itfelf alone . Now while the facred oil ...
... praise the best of kings : Her melting ftrains in you a tomb have found , And lie like bees in their own fweetnels drown'd . He that brought peace , all difcord could atone , His name is mulic of itfelf alone . Now while the facred oil ...
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For profperous princes gain their subjects heart , Who love that praise in which themfelves have By you he fits thofe fubjects to obey [ part . As heaven's eternal monarch does convey His power unfeen , and man to his defigns , By his ...
For profperous princes gain their subjects heart , Who love that praise in which themfelves have By you he fits thofe fubjects to obey [ part . As heaven's eternal monarch does convey His power unfeen , and man to his defigns , By his ...
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Page 54 - Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in: Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.