| John Dryden - 1878 - 368 Seiten
...full many a day: Our author swears it not; but who can know How far the Devil and Jebusites-.may go? This plot, which failed for want of common sense, Had yet a deep and dangerous consequence; 135 For as, when raging fevers boil the blood, The standing lake soon floats into a flood, And every... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 474 Seiten
...parallel. — ED.] Our author swears it not ; but who can know How far the devil and Jebusites may go ? * This plot, which failed for want of common sense, Had yet a deep and dangerous consequence ; iss For as, when raging fevers boil the blood, The standing lake soon floats into a flood, And every... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1890 - 364 Seiten
...SHAFTESBURY, ' From the poem of" ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL." * This plot, which fail'd for want of common sense.f Had yet a deep and dangerous consequence: For as when...blood, The standing lake soon floats into a flood, * "Absalom and Achitophel" is a satire, under Jewish names, upon the intrigues of Lord Shaftesbury... | |
| John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 Seiten
...full many a day : Our author swears it not ; but who can know How far the Devil and Jebusites may go ! 'This plot, which failed for want of common sense, Had yet a deep and dangerous consequence ; 133 For as, when raging fevers boil the blood, The standing lake soon floats into a flood, And every... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 480 Seiten
...parallel. — ED.] Our author swears it not ; but who can know How far the devil and Jebusites may go ? * This plot, which failed for want of common sense, Had yet a deep and dangerous consequence ; iss For as, when raging fevers boil the blood, The standing lake soon floats into a flood, And every... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 478 Seiten
...Our author swears it not ; but who can know How far the devil and Jebusites may go ? * This_jglot, which failed for want of common sense, Had yet a deep and dangerous consequence ; i»5 For as, when raging fevers boil the blood, The standing lake soon floats into a flood, And every... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 490 Seiten
...down. T ACHITOPHEL* From < Absalom and Achitophel' is plot, which failed for want of common-sense, Had yet a deep and dangerous consequence : For as...standing lake soon floats into a flood, And every hostile humor, which before Slept quiet in its channels, bubbles o'er; So several factions from this first... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 Seiten
...famous; and his "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day " is considered the finest in the language.] SHAFTESBUKY. THIS plot, which failed for want of common sense,...standing lake soon floats into a flood, And every hostile humor, which before Slept quiet in its channels, bubbles o'er ; So several factions from this first... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 578 Seiten
...famous; and his "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day " is considered the finest in the language.] SHAFTESBURY. THIS plot, which failed for want of common sense,...standing lake soon floats into a flood, And every hostile humor, which before Slept quiet in its channels, bubbles o'er ; So several factions from this first... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 434 Seiten
...famous; and his "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day " is considered the finest in the language.] SHAFTESBURY. THIS plot, which failed for want of common sense,...standing lake soon floats into a flood, And every hostile humor, which before Slept quiet in its channels, bubbles o'er ; So several factions from this first... | |
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