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" Holland fleet, who, tir'il and done, Stretch'd on their decks, like weary oxen lie : Faint sweats all down their mighty members run, (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, • Or, shipwreck'd, labour... "
The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ... - Page 86
by John Dryden - 1808
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 1

John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...fupplyj. In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, fliipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant fhore ; Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead; They wake with horror, and dare flecp no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art fliould be funk in...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 1

John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...ill fupply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, fhipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant more } Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead; They wake with horror, and dare deep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art ihould be funk in...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore: Or, in dark churches,...dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions,...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore : Or, in dark churches,...dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions,...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 11

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore; Or in dark churches...They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till, from their main-top, joyful news they hear Of ships, which...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...which little souls but ill supply. In dreams they fearful precipices tread : Or, shipwreck 'd, Ыхшг to some distant shore: Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horrour, and dare sleep no more. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...; Faint sweats all down their mighty members run> (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwrecked,...dead, They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 9

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...; Faint sweats all down their mighty members run, (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwrecked,...dead, They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 476 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore : Or, in dark churches,...dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply. In dreams they fearful precipices tread : Or. shipwreck'd, stra :+ horrour, and dare sleep no more. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top...
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