The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksW. Paterson, 1884 - English literature |
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... fight . I must confess , so infamous a knave Can do no service , though the humblest slave : Villains I praise , and patriots accuse ; My railing and my fawning talents use ; Just as they pay , I flatter or abuse . But I to men in power ...
... fight . I must confess , so infamous a knave Can do no service , though the humblest slave : Villains I praise , and patriots accuse ; My railing and my fawning talents use ; Just as they pay , I flatter or abuse . But I to men in power ...
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... seconds who first arrange a fight , and then , if they can , part the combatants . Dryden has " stickle " in The Assignation ( vol . iv . p . 384 . ) - ED . ] XII . 2 7943 War , our consumption , was STANZAS ON OLIVER CROMWELL . 13.
... seconds who first arrange a fight , and then , if they can , part the combatants . Dryden has " stickle " in The Assignation ( vol . iv . p . 384 . ) - ED . ] XII . 2 7943 War , our consumption , was STANZAS ON OLIVER CROMWELL . 13.
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... fighting , and essayed To stanch the blood , by breathing of the vein . * * This passage , which seems to imply nothing further than that Cromwell conducted the war so as to push it to a con- clusion , was afterwards invidiously ...
... fighting , and essayed To stanch the blood , by breathing of the vein . * * This passage , which seems to imply nothing further than that Cromwell conducted the war so as to push it to a con- clusion , was afterwards invidiously ...
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... fighting which the inveteracy of civil war had introduced , astonished the French by their audacity and their contempt of the usual military precautions and calculations . There is a curious account , by Sir Thomas XXX . That old ...
... fighting which the inveteracy of civil war had introduced , astonished the French by their audacity and their contempt of the usual military precautions and calculations . There is a curious account , by Sir Thomas XXX . That old ...
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... fight ; Shocked by a covenanting League's vast powers , As holy and as catholic as ours : + Till Fortune's fruitless spite had made it known , Her blows not shook , but riveted , his throne . = * [ Christie supposes the reference to be ...
... fight ; Shocked by a covenanting League's vast powers , As holy and as catholic as ours : + Till Fortune's fruitless spite had made it known , Her blows not shook , but riveted , his throne . = * [ Christie supposes the reference to be ...
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