 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...prasceps prono rapit alveus amni. VIRG. Georg. I. 201. 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. DKYDEN. IT is with much satisfaction that I hear this great city inquir ing day by day after these... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 pages
...in praeceps prono rapit alveus amni. Vmo. Georg. 1. 201. 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. DRTDEN. It is with much satisfaction that I hear this great city inquiring, day by day, after these... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 pages
...praeceps prono rapit alveus amni. VIRG. Georg. I. 201. So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, And slow advancing, struggle with the stream ; But...their hands, or cease to strive, Then down the flood wi^i headlong haste they drive. DRYDEN. It is with much satisfaction that I hear this great city inquiring,... | |
 | Virgil - 1877 - 528 pages
...curse, Or Fate's decree, degenerate still to worse. 290 So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : But...drive. Nor must the ploughman less observe the skies, 295 When the Kids, Dragon, and Arcturus, rise, Than sailors homeward bent, who cut their way Through... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 618 pages
...amni. Vrao. Georg. L 201. So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, And, slow advancing, straggle with the stream : But if they slack their hands, or...Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive. DRYDEN. IT is with much satisfaction that I hear this great city inquir ing day by day after these... | |
 | 1887 - 958 pages
...brightened its splendor. * So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, And slow advancing strnggle with the stream; But if they slack their hands or cease to strive, Thea down the lloocl with headlong haste they drive. Do not attempt, then, to separate the Catholic... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - 1887 - 630 pages
...Nature's caree 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 if they slack their arms, or cease to strive. Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive. — Dryden. 4604. Si... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 470 pages
...defensive joined. — Tate, No. 10. VIRG., Georg. i. 201. 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 itrive, Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive. — Dry den. 11. Juv., Sat. ii. 63. The... | |
 | Hugh Percy Jones - 1900 - 570 pages
...Specious names are lent to cover vices. The shadow of a name. 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. Do not live one way in private, and another in public. • The motto of the city of Edinburgh.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pages
...lll, No. 49, Q. 4. 74 Motto : Virgil, Georg., i, 201 : So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : But...slack their hands, or cease to strive, Then down the fl6od with headlong haste they drive. — DRYDEN. 74 4 Publisher tells me, etc. : On the circulation... | |
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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. 
