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... song and evening vows . DRYDEN . No fruitful crop the sickly fields return ; But oats and darnel choke the rising corn . DRYDEN . Some steep their seeds , and some in cauldrons boil O'er gentle fires ; the exuberant juice to drain , And ...
... song and evening vows . DRYDEN . No fruitful crop the sickly fields return ; But oats and darnel choke the rising corn . DRYDEN . Some steep their seeds , and some in cauldrons boil O'er gentle fires ; the exuberant juice to drain , And ...
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... song . BULWER : New Timon . When Bishop Berkeley said , " There was no matter , " And proved it - ' twas no matter what he said . BYRON . Evergreen forest ! which Boccaccio's lore And Dryden's lay made haunted ground to me , How have I ...
... song . BULWER : New Timon . When Bishop Berkeley said , " There was no matter , " And proved it - ' twas no matter what he said . BYRON . Evergreen forest ! which Boccaccio's lore And Dryden's lay made haunted ground to me , How have I ...
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... all day long , Horace and he went hand in hand in song . POPE . Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote , And beastly Skelton Heads of Houses quote . POPE . Swift for closer style , But Hoadly for a period 50 AUTHORS .
... all day long , Horace and he went hand in hand in song . POPE . Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote , And beastly Skelton Heads of Houses quote . POPE . Swift for closer style , But Hoadly for a period 50 AUTHORS .
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... song . POPE . Superior beings , when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law , Admired such wisdom in a mortal shape , And show'd a Newton as we show an ape . POPE . Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night- God said ...
... song . POPE . Superior beings , when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law , Admired such wisdom in a mortal shape , And show'd a Newton as we show an ape . POPE . Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night- God said ...
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... song . DRYDEN . Th ' illiterate writer , empiric - like , applies To minds diseased unsafe chance remedies : The learn'd in schools , where knowledge first began , He was too warm on picking work to dwell , But faggoted his notions as ...
... song . DRYDEN . Th ' illiterate writer , empiric - like , applies To minds diseased unsafe chance remedies : The learn'd in schools , where knowledge first began , He was too warm on picking work to dwell , But faggoted his notions as ...
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