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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work - Page 316
by Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 536 pages
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The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 474 pages
...quoted : — In dreams they fearful precipices tread ; Or, shipwrecked, lahour to some distant shore ; Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, ami dare sleep no more. The verses in which Prince Rupert and his enemy are compared to a greyhound...
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The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 480 pages
...quoted : — In dreams they fearful precipices tread ; Or, shipwrecked, labour to some distant shore ; Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. The verses in which Prince Rupert and his enemy are compared to a greyhound and hare,...
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Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell: Astraea Redux.--Annus Mirabilis ...

John Dryden - English poetry - 1893 - 384 pages
...ill supply. 71 In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or shipwracked labour to some distant shore, Or in dark churches walk among the 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...
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The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 478 pages
...quoted : — In dreams they fearful precipices tread ; Or, shipwrecked, labour to some distant shore ; Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and aare sleep no more. The verses in which Prince Rupert and his enemy are compared to a greyhound and...
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Johnson's Life of Dryden, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...supply. ) ,o 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, and dare sleep no more." stronger with regard to arts not liberal, or confined to few, and therefore far removed...
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The greater poems of Virgil: The first six books of the Aeneid

Virgil - 1895 - 888 pages
...Mirabilis, stanza 71 : In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or shipwracked labor to some distant shore, Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror and dare sleep no more. 468. Tyrios : her own people. 469. Pentheus: king of Thebes, who watched in concealment...
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Aeneis; Bucolica; Georgica: The Greater Poems of Virgil

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

Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pages
...supply). 20 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, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in...
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Pvbli Vergili Maronis Aeneis : Bvcolica : Georgica: the greater poems of ...

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

Robert McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 644 pages
...ill supply. In dreams they fearful precipices tread ; Or, shipwrecked, labour to some distant shore ; Or, in dark churches walk among the dead ; 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...
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