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" Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. These out of mere instinct, they knew not why, Adored their fathers... "
The poetical works of John Dryden, ed. by C.C. Clarke - Page 111
by John Dryden - 1874
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...saints succeed Of the true old enthusiastic breed: 530 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-soundin Ѐ S4° Such were the tools; but a whole Hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...saints succeed Of the true old enthusiastic breed : 530 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, t no other memorial of them, but thai 536 And by the same blind benefit of Fate The Devil and the Jebusite 6 did hate: Born to be saved even...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892).

English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...saints succeed Of the true old enthusiastic breed : 530 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, udgel 6 lawyer 7 ape 8 cease 'J a morris dance to...and, by some dedicated sonnet, to bring you into a 536 And by the same blind benefit of Fate The Devil and the Jebusite ' did hate : Born to be saved...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...succeed Of the true old enthusiastic breed : 530 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothmg p l n i r r 2^l_l 536 And by the same blind benefit of Fate The Devil and the Jebusite 6 did hate : Born to be saved...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...saints succeed Of the true old enthusiastic breed : 530 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, "Yes, Sir; many men, many women, and many children."...Dissertation, not only defending their authenticity, but 535 Adored their fathers' God and property, And, by the same blind benefit of Fate, The Devil and the...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...such Who think too little, and who talk too much. These out of mere instinct, they knew not why, S3S Adored their fathers' God and property, And, by the...benefit of Fate, The Devil and the Jebusite did hate: right. 540 Such were the tools; but a whole Hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score....
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Working Composition

John Baker Opdycke - English language - 1917 - 370 pages
...Sheridan. A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject excites no interest in any. — Hazlitt. But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. — Dryden. The less men think, the more they talk. — Montesquieu. Whether one talks well depends...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...saints succeed Of the true old enthusiastic breed : 145 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While...thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high r i50 Adored their fathers' God and property, And by the same blind benefit of Fate The Devil and the...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was (lie 1H> Adored their fathers' God and property, And by the same blind benefit of Fate The Devil and the...
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The Copeland Reader

Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1746 pages
...saints succeed Of the true old enthusiastic breed: 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, I :) {I> 0 Such were the tools ; but a whole Hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of...
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