 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 páginas
...command. Scattered his maker's image through the land. 10 Michal, of royal blood, the crown did wear;0 A soil ungrateful to the tiller's care: Not so the...several mothers bore To godlike David several sons before.0 But since like slaves his bed they did ascend, No true succession could their seed attend.... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 páginas
...his Maker's Image through the Land. Michal, of Royal blood, the Crown did wear, A Soyl ungratefull to the Tiller's care: Not so the rest; for several...ascend, No True Succession could their seed attend. (vol. i, p. 217, lines 1-16) Of the political analysis that the poem does provide, that, unlike its... | |
 | Nancy Bogen - 2007 - 426 páginas
...his Maker's Image through the Land. Michal, of Royal Blood, the Crown did wear, A Soyl ungratefull to the Tiller's care: Not so the rest; for several...No True Succession could their seed attend. Of all this Numerous Progeny was none So Beautifull, so brave as Absolon — : The difference between the... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 páginas
...command, 10 Scattered his Maker's image through the land. Michal, of royal blood, the crown did wear, A soil ungrateful to the tiller's care; Not so the...mothers bore To godlike David several sons before. Of all this numerous progeny was none So beautiful, so brave as Absalon: Whether, inspired by some... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1895 - 296 páginas
...poet Dryden, in his poem of Absalom and Achitophel, thus describes him, under the former title : — " Of all the numerous progeny was none So beautiful, so brave, as Absalom. Whale'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please. His motions... | |
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Michal, of royal blood, the crown did wear, A soil ungrateful to the tiller's care : Not so the rest ; for several mothers bore To god-like David several sons before : But since like slaves his bed they did ascend, No true succession could their seed... 
