 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
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 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 ; For all beyond it is to touch the ark. To chauge foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue ; At once divine... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1863 - 608 pàgines
...follow him when they've believed him. _ " To patch up flaws, and buttress up the wall, — So fav is duty ; but here fix the mark : For all beyond it is to touch the ark." • DRYDEN, Absalom Conservative writers have always tried to represent the pile of the British Constitution... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - 1865 - 280 pàgines
...It would be well if it did nothing worse. To patch up flaws, and buttress up the wall,— So far is duty ; but here fix the mark: For all beyond it is to touch the ark. DSYDEN, Absalom and Achitophel. CONSERVATIVE writers have often tried to represent the pile of the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pàgines
...disturb a state ; . innovation i" fhfi blow of fate. MO 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, «B B Work for rebels, who bSse~ends pursue ; At once divme and human laws control,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pàgines
...blow of fate. ** If ancient fabries nod, and threat to fall, To patch their flaws, and buttress up cast the frame anew, ** Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue ; At once divine and human laws control,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1868 - 576 pàgines
...fate. If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch their flaws, and buttress up the wall, Tims far 'tis 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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 pàgines
...the blow of fate. 800 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, 805 Is work for rebels who base ends pursue, At... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pàgines
...the blow of fate. 800 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, 805 Is work for rebels who base ends pursue, At... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pàgines
...fate. 800 If ancient fabrics nod and threat to fall, To patch the flaws and buttress up the wall,t Thus far 'tis duty : but here fix the mark ; For all beyond it is to touch our ark. To charjge foundations, cast the frame anew, 805 Is jwork Tor "rebels who base ends, pjusue,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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,... | |
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