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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ... - Page 349
by John Dryden - 1808
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The history of the Puritans or Protestant non-conformists. repr ..., Volume 2

Daniel Neal - 1837 - 742 pages
...arms oppose; Oppress'd with numbers in th' unequal field, His men discouraged, and himself eipt'll'd. Let him for succour sue from place to place. Torn...in battle slain. And their untimely fate lament in rain : And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may be buy his peace. Nor let...
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The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of ..., Volume 1

William Hone - 1837 - 874 pages
...untamed, and haughty foes, His peaceful entrance with dire arms oppose ; Oppressed with numbers in th' unequal field, His men discouraged and himself expelled,...from place to place, Torn from his subjects and his sons' embrace, First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...expell'd ; Let him for succour sue from place lo place, Torn from his subject* and his son's embraeo. itten the two first lines seriously, and that some wag had added the two latter Tain : And when, at length, the cruel war shall cease, On bard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor...
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The Tongue of Time, and Star of the States: A System of Human Nature, with ...

Joseph Comstock - 1838 - 506 pages
...superstition, and its striking results. The passage upon which the royal eye of Charles fell, is as follows : , First let him see his friends in battle slain, And...fate lament in vain : And when at length, the cruel wars shall cease. On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy supreme command,...
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Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts: Including ...

John Heneage Jesse - 1840 - 530 pages
...forms part of the imprecation which Dido pours forth against ./Eneas, and is thus translated by Dryden, Yet let a race untamed, and haughty foes, His peaceful...from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his sons' embrace ! First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...Auccouraue from plao1 to place, Torn from hi* subject.« ami his son's embrace. First kt him «ее n the Exeter family I am unable to give any account. The attempt to : Aral when, at lenslh, the cruel war shall cease, Oi hard conditions may he buy his peace ; N.ir let...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With and Essay on His Life ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...oppose, ОрргеяэМ with numbers in lhT unequal field, Hid men discouraged, anil himself expell'd ; h to write, add their names, and the rest would sign...Every man goes home and tells his neighbour of the g batile slain, Anil their untimely fate lament in vain : Anil when, al length, the cruel war shall cease,...
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The Monthly magazine, Volume 28

Monthly literary register - 1809 - 752 pages
...to place. Torn from his subjects, and hi» son'i embrace ; First, let him see his friends in btttle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain: And when, at length, the cruel war shall On hard conditions may he buy his peace : Nor let him, then, enjoy supreme command, But fall inglorious...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 2

John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...arms oppose Oppress'd with numhers in th' unequal field, His men d,scourag'd, and himself ex pel t'd, Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his suhjects, and his son*a emhrace. Pirat let him ace his friends in hatUe slain, And their untimely fate...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...discouraged, anil himself cxpell'd \ Let him for auccour sue from placr to place, Torn from hia subjecu an 1 his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And Ihcir untimely fate lament in vain : And when, at length, the cruel war shall ceaae, On hard conditions...
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