 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
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...follow him when they've believed him. " To patch up flaws, and buttress up the wall, — So for is duty ; but here fix the mark : For all beyond it is to touch the ark." DIIYDEN, Absalom and Achitojihel. Conservative writers have always tried to represent the pile of the... | |
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