 If ancient fabrics nod and threat to fall, To patch the flaws and buttress up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty : but here fix the mark ; For all beyond it is to touch our ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels who base ends pursue,...  The Works of the English Poets: Dryden - Pàgina 152per Samuel Johnson - 1779Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pàgines
...the blow of Fate. If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch their flaws, and buttress up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty : but here fix the mark...beyond it is to touch the ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue ; At once divine and human laws control,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...and threat to fall, To patch their flaws, and buttress up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty : but here flx iam C. Hall cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue ; At once divine and human laws controul,... | |
 | Night watch - 1828 - 776 pàgines
...CHAPTER XII. If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch their flaws and buttress up their wall, Thus far 'tis duty : but here fix the mark, For all beyond it is to touch the ark. DRYDEN. NOTHING of any moment occurred on their passage to England, save that the Orlopean regions... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pàgines
...nonconformity. South. If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch their flaws, and bullrea up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty : but here fix the mark. For all beyond it is to touch the ark. Roictmmtm. Then another question arises, whether this house •lands firm upon its ancient foundations,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pàgines
...blow of fate. BOO If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch their flaws, and buttress up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty : but here fix the mark...beyond it is to touch the ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, son Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue; At once divine and human laws control,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pàgines
...ancient fabrics nod, and threat tu fall, To patch their flaws, and buttress up the wall, Thus far 't is duty : but here fix the mark ; For all beyond it is to touch the ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew. Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue ; At once divine and human laws control,... | |
 | 1841 - 204 pàgines
...ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch their flaws, and buttress up the wall, Thus far is duty: but here fix the mark, For all beyond it is to touch the ABK. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels who base ends pursue.' " Excited... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1841 - 790 pàgines
...threat to fall, To natch their flaws and butiress up the wall. Thus far is duty: but here fix the marki For all beyond it is to touch the ark. To change foundations, cast the frame ancw. Is work for rebels who base ends pursue." Mr. Shell: The right hon. Gentleman,... | |
 | 1851 - 824 pàgines
...the blow of Fate. If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch their flaws and buttress up the wall — Thus far 'tis duty ; but here fix the...beyond it is to touch the ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, IB work for rebels who base ends pursue ; At once divine and human laws control,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 342 pàgines
...disturb a state ; But innovation is the blow of fate. soo If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, Thus far 'tis duty : but here fix the mark : For all...beyond it is to touch the ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, sos Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue ; At once divine and human laws control,... | |
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