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" Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul, that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more. "
The World as it Goes: Exemplified in the Characters of Nations, States ... - Page 28
by William Combe - 1781 - 48 pages
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The Art of English Poetry Containing: Rules for making verses. A collection ...

Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...pleafe. Shak. Htm!. Let Fortune empty her whole Quiver on me, I have a Soul, that like an ample Shield, Can take in all, and Verge enough for more. Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's. Souls know no Conquerours. Dryd. Dan Sit. We wage unequal War. With Men unconquer'd in the lifted Field ; Or conqaer'd,...
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The Complete Art of Poetry: In Six Parts, I. Of the Nature, Use ..., Volume 2

Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 490 pages
...pleafe. Shuk. Ham!. Let Fortune errfpty her whole Quiver on me, I have a Soul, that like an ample Shield, Can take in all ; and Verge enough for more. Fate was not mine, nor ami Fate's. Souls know no Conquerors. m Dryd. Von. Set-- FORT U'N E. On high, where no hoirfe Winds...
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THE MONTHLY REVIEW.

SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - 588 pages
...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. DR.YDEN. ' Mr. WILKES. " Let fortune empty all her quiver on me. I have a foul that, like an ample fhield,...take in all, and verge enough for more ; Fate was noc mine, nor am I Fate's; Souls know no conquerors DRYDEN. * Sir JOHN JEHU. " Aye, that's a dolt indeed,...
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Dramatic Miscellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on ..., Volume 3

Thomas Davies - Theater - 1784 - 524 pages
...hisop'ning heav'n, And draggrd him down with me, fpite ofpredeftination ! And Sebaftian himfelf : . Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me! I have a foul, that, like an ample ihicid, Can take in all, and verge enough for more ! To Thomas Otway was referved the honour of giving...
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The Monthly Magazine, Volume 6

1798 - 580 pages
...whale line was derived. "I am inclined to think, it was from the fol• lowing pafl age in Drydtn : Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a foul, that like an amflrjhirld, Can take iu all, and -verge enough for more. Dryden'í D Having in our laft paper on this...
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The man of fortitude; or, Schedoni in England

Benjamin Frere - 1801 - 688 pages
...VOLUMES. BY B. FRER E. VOL. I. • Welcome, kindred glooms ! Congenial horrors, hail ! — — THoM10N, Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a...ample fhield, Can take in all, and verge enough for mote. DRYDIN, .'**«• . LONDON : PIUJJTED FOR JAMES WALLIS, NO. NOSTER-ROW. 1801. , Lombard-Street,...
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Retrospection: Or: A Review of the Most Striking and Important ..., Volumes 1-2

Hester Lynch Piozzi - World history - 1801 - 1008 pages
...their efforts, but feemcd to fay with Don Scbaftian, " Why let them empty their whole quiver " on mt., I have a foul that like an ample fhield, can take in all, and " verge enough for more/' And though Lord Chatham had pronounced his Majefty the greateft courtier of his own court, poKtenefs...
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The School of Wisdom

Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...Neptune. jE'en thus Do empty fhew and ttue-priz'd worth divide In /forms of'fortune.—Shakefpeare, LET fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a...Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's : Souls know no conquerors—Dryden. WITH fuch unmaken temper'of the foul To bear the fwelling tide, of profperous...
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The History of Clarissa Harlowe: In a Series of Letters, Volume 8

Samuel Richardson - English fiction - 1811 - 460 pages
...And in these : Let Fortune empty her whole q niver on me, I have a soul, that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more. Fate was...not mine : nor am I Fate's Souls know no conquerors. the poet says not truth ; for CONSCIENCE is the conqueror of souls; at least it is the conqueror of...
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Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady, Volume 8

Samuel Richardson - 1820 - 442 pages
...whole quiver on me, L 1 have a soul, that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough tor more. Fate was not mine: nor am I fate's Souls know no conquerors. But in the first quoted lines, considering them closely, there is nothing but blustering absurdity:...
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