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The Lives of All the Earls and Dukes of Devonshire: Descended from the ... - Page 83
by Joseph Grove - 1764 - 492 pages
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The English Poets, Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son, Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless...
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Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son, Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless...
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Harper's Cyclopædia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...needful hours of rest T Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? Jii#S f 6G% Y V~ ]ZZ T i B B & N 5d 32 uufeathered, two-legged thing, a son! BUCKINGHAM DELINEATED AS ZIMRI. FBOM "ABSALOM ASD ACHITOPHEL."...
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A Critical History of English Literature: The Restoration to 1800, Volume 3

David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a sen, Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless...
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Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible: Volume 1 ...

Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave, what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son: Got, while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...DRYDEN, (1 631-1 700) British poet, dramatist, critic. Albanat, in King Arthur, act 1,sc. 1 (1691). 3 And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son. JOHN DRYDEN, (1631-1700) British poet, dramatist, critic. "Absalom...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please: Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? 0 unfeathered two-legged thing, a son. 3022 Absalom and Achitophel In friendship false, implacable in...
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Restoration Literature: An Anthology

Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son: 170 Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless...
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The Major Works

John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son, 170 Got, while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless...
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Alexander Pope and His Critics: An essay on the genius and writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pages
...Abfalom and Achitophel; and particularly by four lines in it, that related to Lord Afhley, his father; And all to leave, what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two-legg'cl thing a fon ; Got while his foul did huddled notions try, And born a fhapelefs...
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