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" Fate's decree, degen'rate still to worse. So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream: But, if they slack their hands, or cease to strive, Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive. "
The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill - Page 71
by John Bell - 1807
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The British Essayists: The Adventurer

Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 430 pages
...nature's curse, Or fate's deeree, degen'rate still to worse. So the boat's brawny erew the current stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : But...Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive. PRYDEN, THERE came one morning to inquire for him at his chambers, a lady who had something in her...
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The Works of Virgil, Volume 1

Virgil - 1803 - 364 pages
...curse, Or Fate's decree, degen'rate still to worse. So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, 290 And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream: But,...Dragon, and Arcturus, rise, 295 Than sailors homeward bent, who cut their way Through Helle's stormy straits, and oyster-breeding sea. But, when Astraea's...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

1803 - 434 pages
...Atque ilium in prseceps prono rapit alveus amni. VIBG. So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : But...Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive. DRY DEN. IT is with much satisfaction that I hear this great city enquiring day by day after these...
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

1803 - 420 pages
...Atque ilium in prarceps prono rapit alveus amni. V JRG. So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream: But...Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive. DRYDEN. IT is with much satisfaction that I hear this great eity enquiring clay by day after these...
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Select British Classics, Volume 19

1803 - 254 pages
...boat's brawny crew the current stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : But if they siack their hands, or cease to strive, Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive. DRYDE y. THERE came one morning to enquire for him at his chambers, a lady who had something in her...
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The works of Virgil, tr. into Engl. verse by mr. Dryden. Carey, Volume 1

Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 310 pages
...curse, Or Fate's decree, degen'rate still to worse. So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, 290 And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : But,...Dragon, and Arcturus, rise, 295 Than sailors homeward bent, who cut their way Through Helle's stormy straits, and oyster-breeding sea. But, when Astrsea's...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 pages
...Nature's curse, Or Fate's decree, degenerate still to worse. So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : But,...skies, When the Kids, Dragon, and Arcturus, rise, Than sailors homeward bent, who cut their way Through Helle's stormy straits, and oyster-breeding sea....
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The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ...

John Dryden - 1808 - 504 pages
...Nature's curse, Or Fate's decree, degenerate still to worse. So the beat's brawny crew the current stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : But,...less observe the skies, When the Kids, Dragon, and Arctums, rise, Tlian sailors homeward bent, who cut their way Through Helle's stormy straits, and oyster-breeding...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 14

John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...worse. So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : Uut, if they slack their hands, or cease to strive, Then...skies, When the Kids, Dragon, and Arcturus, rise, Than sailors homeward bent, who cut their- way Through Ilelle's stormy straits, and oyster-breeding...
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The British Essayists, Volume 6

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 pages
...praceps prono rapit alr-eus amni. yIRG. Oeon;. i. 201. So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, Anil, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : But if...hands, or cease to strive, Then down the flood with headlong'haste they drive. DRYDEN. IT is with much satisfaction that I hear this great city inquiring...
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