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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: Edited with a Memoir, Revised Text, and Notes

John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 778 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply. 7' : In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or shipwracked 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, ^fj'"1 Till from their maintop joyful news they hear...
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Johnson's Life of Dryden, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply. ) ,o 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." stronger with regard to arts not liberal, or confined to few, and therefore far removed from common...
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The greater poems of Virgil: The first six books of the Aeneid

Virgil - Latin language - 1895 - 830 pages
...Dryden, Annas Mirabilis, stanza 71 : In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or shipwracked labor to some distant shore, Or in dark churches walk among...dead ; They wake with horror and dare sleep no more. 468. TyriOS : her own people. 469. Pentheus: king of Thebes, who watched in concealment the mysteries...
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Aeneis; Bucolica; Georgica: The Greater Poems of Virgil

Virgil - 1898 - 928 pages
...Cf. Uryden, Annas Mirabilis, st. 71 : In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or shipwracked labor to some distant shore, Or in dark churches walk among...dead ; They wake with horror and dare sleep no more. 468. Tyrios, her own people. 469. Pentheus : king of Thebes, who watched in concealment the mysteries...
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Johnson's Life of Dryden

Samuel Johnson, Peter Peterson - 1899 - 216 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply). 20 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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Pvbli Vergili Maronis Aeneis: Bvcolica: Georgica; the Greater ..., Volume 1

Virgil - 1899 - 824 pages
...Cf. Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, st. 71 : In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or shipwracked labor to some distant shore, Or in dark churches walk among...dead ; They wake with horror and dare sleep no more. 468. Tyrios, her own people. 469. Pentheus : king of Thebes, who watched in concealment the mysteries...
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Longman's Handbook of English Literature: From A.D. 673 to the Present Time

Robert McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 834 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,...They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. The exhaustion of both fleets after the fight is over is thus described : So have I seen some fearful hare...
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Dryden: Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell ; Astraea Redux ; Annus ...

John Dryden - 1901 - 384 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...
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Among my books

James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 352 pages
...dreams of the disheartened enemy: — "In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwrecked, labor to some distant shore, Or in dark churches walk among the dead " ; — and those in which he recalls glorious memories, and sees where " The mighty ghosts of our...
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Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 530 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply). 1 In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore, Or, in dark churches,...the dead : They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more1.' It is a general rule in poetry that all appropriated terms of art 255 should be sunk in general...
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