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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 Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 9

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply. 71. 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. 72. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top joyful news they hear Of ships,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 2

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 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 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 lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 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 5

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pages
...lie; Faint sweats all down their mighty members run, (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply^. In dreams they fearful precipices tread. Or, shipwrecked,...to some distant shore; Or, in dark churches, walk uniong the dead: They wake wilh horror, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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, walk among the dead : They wake with horrour, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 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, walk among the dead : They wake with horrour, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art...
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The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill Apply.) 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 Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...bulks which little souls but ill supply. zao 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, sas Till from their maintop joyful news they hear Of ships,...
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Lives of the poets. Lives of eminent persons. Political tracts. Philological ...

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 724 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, walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, aud dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriate terms of art should be...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...: Faint sweats all down their mighty members run ; Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply .f In dreams they fearful precipices tread ; Or shipwrecked,...They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes,| Till from their maintop joyful news they hear Of ships, which...
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