 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...which little souls but ill supply. In dreams they fearful precipices tread : Or, shipwreck'd, labor ing, never in a steady state ; Good after ill, and...delight ; Alternate like the scenes of day and night : mom they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top joyful news they hear Of ships, which... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 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. Never had valour, no not ours, before, Done ought like this upon the land or main, Where, not to be... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1854 - 324 pages
...Faint sweats all down their mighty members run ; Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply. 7i In dreams they fearful precipices tread ; Or, shipwrecked,...dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. 72 The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their maintop joyful news they hear Of ships,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 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." It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms a' art should be sunk in general expressions,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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." It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 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,...among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep uo more." It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 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. 1 ' Berkeley : ' Vice-admiral Berkeley fought till his men were all killed, and was found in the cabin... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...they fearful precipices tread ; Or shipwrock'd, lahour to some distant shore ; Or in dark churehes walk among the dead : They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. The mom they look on with unwilling oyes,J Till from their maintop joyful news they hoar Of ships, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1864 - 460 pages
...ill supply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant snore : Or, in dark churches, walk among the 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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