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... turn to his sentence , has avouched himself to be a worse poet than- Flecknoe . But expressions of modesty in a dedication , like those of panegyric , are not to be understood literally . As in the latter , Dryden often strains a note ...
... turn to his sentence , has avouched himself to be a worse poet than- Flecknoe . But expressions of modesty in a dedication , like those of panegyric , are not to be understood literally . As in the latter , Dryden often strains a note ...
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... turn pam- phleteers , and augment the number of those abo- minable scribblers , who , in this time of licence , abuse the press , almost every day , with nonsense , and rail- ing against the government . It remains , my lord , that I ...
... turn pam- phleteers , and augment the number of those abo- minable scribblers , who , in this time of licence , abuse the press , almost every day , with nonsense , and rail- ing against the government . It remains , my lord , that I ...
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... turn here in the garden . Gerv . It is already ordered , sir . But they are like to stay in the outer - room , till the mistress of the house return from morning exercise . Wood . What , she's gone to the parish - church , it seems , to ...
... turn here in the garden . Gerv . It is already ordered , sir . But they are like to stay in the outer - room , till the mistress of the house return from morning exercise . Wood . What , she's gone to the parish - church , it seems , to ...
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... turn . Gerv . I call your conscience to witness , how often I have given you wholesome counsel ; how often I have said to you , with tears in my eyes , master , or Mr Aldo- Wood . Mr Woodall , you rogue ! that is my nomme de guerre ...
... turn . Gerv . I call your conscience to witness , how often I have given you wholesome counsel ; how often I have said to you , with tears in my eyes , master , or Mr Aldo- Wood . Mr Woodall , you rogue ! that is my nomme de guerre ...
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... turning with them . Trick . And you are come upon the spur before , to acquaint me with the news . Aldo . Well , thou art the happiest rogue in a kind keeper ! He drank thy health five times , superna- culum , * to my son Brain - sick ...
... turning with them . Trick . And you are come upon the spur before , to acquaint me with the news . Aldo . Well , thou art the happiest rogue in a kind keeper ! He drank thy health five times , superna- culum , * to my son Brain - sick ...
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Página 223 - Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path...
Página 223 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Página 285 - Too subtle-potent, tun'd too sharp in sweetness, For the capacity of my ruder powers: I fear it much; and I do fear besides, That I shall lose distinction in my joys...
Página 188 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Página 223 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast; keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you...
Página 117 - Yet man, vain man, would with his short-lined plummet Fathom the vast abyss of heavenly justice. Whatever is, is in its causes just, Since all things are by fate. But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain, the nearest links, His eyes not carrying to that equal beam That poises all above.
Página 258 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 365 - AmboyS" upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly ;* nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting...
Página 223 - For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And, with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Página 440 - Kings' titles commonly begin by force, Which time wears off, and mellows into right; So power, which, in one age, is tyranny, Is ripened, in the next, to true succession: She's in possession.