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" Oppressed with numbers in the unequal field, His men discouraged, and himself expelled, Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First, let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate... "
The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ... - Page 349
by John Dryden - 1808
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Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West ...

Rev. Alexander Stewart - 1883 - 436 pages
...arms oppose, 0|>press'd with numbers in th' unequal field, His men discouraged and himself expell'd : Let him for succour sue from place to place. Torn...subjects and his son's embrace, First let him see his friend* in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain ; And when at length the cruel wars...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: And Selections from My Favourite Poets and ...

Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 pages
...Dryden : " ' Oppressed with numbers in the unequal field, His men discouraged, and himself dispelled, Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace.' " King Charles seeming concerned at this accident, the Lord Falkland, who observed it, would likewise...
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Anecdotæ Eborancenses. Yorkshire anecdotes; or, Remarkable ..., Volume 1

Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1883 - 376 pages
...follows :— " Oppress'd with numbers in the unequal field, His men discouraged, and himself expell'd ; Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace." The King, it is said, was not a little disconcerted at the omen ; whereupon Falkland tried the Sortes...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 8

Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 476 pages
...race untamed and haughty foes His peaceful entrance with dire arms oppose ; Oppressed with numbers on the unequal field, His men discouraged, and himself...from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his sou's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 8

Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 474 pages
...race untamed and haughty foes His peaceful entrance with dire arms oppose ; Oppressed with numbers on the unequal field, His men discouraged, and himself...from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son'a embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain...
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Living Thoughts in Words that Burn, from Poet, Sage and Humorist

Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...Oppress'd with numbers in th' unequal field, His men discourag'd, and himself expell'd, Let him for succor sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and...their untimely fate lament in vain: And when at length ths cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace: Nor let him then enjoy supreme...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 8

Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 472 pages
...foes His peaceful entrance with dire arms oppose ; Oppressed with numbers on the unequal Held, His meu discouraged, and himself expelled, Let him for succour...sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and liis son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in...
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Falklands

Thomas Longueville - 1897 - 242 pages
...translates : — Oppress'd with Numbers in th' unequal Field, His Men discourag'd, and himself expell'd, Let him for Succour sue from Place to Place, Torn from his Subjects, and his Son's Embrace, etc. — iEneid, iv. It is said King Charles seem'd concerned at this accident ; the Lord Falkland,...
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Oxford and Its Colleges

Joseph Wells - 1897 - 356 pages
...persuaded by Lord Falkland to try his luck, and opened on the passage — 304 " Let him for succour s1n: from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace." [Dryden's Translation,...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 882 pages
...arms oppose, Oppress'd with numbers in th' unequal field, His men discourag'd and himself expell'd, Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn...lament in vain : And when at length the cruel war shall ceuse, fulfilled themselves in the captivity and execution of Charles I. But, perhaps, it may not have...
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