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" The vanquish'd fires withdraw from every place, Or, full with feeding, sink into a sleep: Each household genius shows again his face, And, from the hearths, the little Lares creep. "
The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 85
by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...is his expression ? A hollow crystal pyramid he takes, t In firmamental waters dipp'd above, Of this a broad extinguisher he makes, And hoods the flames that to their quarry strove. he describes the Last Day, and the decisive tribunal, he intermingles 'his image : When rattling...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

1801 - 416 pages
...flames drive on to storm the rest. Iiz0 CCLXXXI. An hollow crystal pyramid he takes, In firmamental waters dipt above; Of it a broad extinguisher he makes, And hoods the flames that to their quarry strove. CCLXXXI I. Each household genius shews again his face, And from the hearths the little Lares...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...is his expression ? A hollow crystal pyramid he take*, In firmameruul waters dipp'd above, Of this a broad extinguisher he makes, And hoods the flames that to their quarry strove. When he describes the Last Day, and the decisive tribunal, he intermingles this image : When...
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Poetical Works

John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...lie, And eager flames drive on to storm the rest, An hollow crystal pyramid he takes, In firmamental waters dipt above ; Of it a broad extinguisher he makes, And hoods the flames that to (heir quarry strove. The vanqiiish'd fires withdraw from every place, Or, full with feeding, sink into...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 9

John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...eager flames drive on to storm the rest.* 281. An hollow crystal pyramid he takes, In firmainental waters dipt above ; Of it a broad extinguisher he...makes, And hoods the flames that to their quarry drove. 282. The vanquished fires withdraw from every place, f Or, full with feeding, sink into a sleep : Each...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 18

Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 pages
...London, at last claps an extinguisher upon it : " An hollow crystal pyramid he takes In firmamental waters dipt above ; Of it a broad extinguisher he...And hoods the flames that to their quarry drove." But another passage in Dryden is carried to a still greater lengtk •f profaneness and absurdity"...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Collated with the Best Editions:

John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...lie, And eager flames drive on to storm the rest, An hollow crystal pyramid he takes, In firmamental waters dipt above ; Of it a broad extinguisher he makes, And hoods the flames that to their quarry strove. The vanquish'd fires withdraw from every place, Or, full with feeding, sink into a sleep :...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...is his expression ? A hollow crystal pyramid he takes, In firmamental waters dipp'd above, Of this a broad extinguisher he makes, And hoods the flames that to their quarry strove. When he describes the Last Day, and the decisive tribunal, he intermingles thh image : When...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...

Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 412 pages
...London, at last claps an extinguisher upon it: " An hollow crystal pyramid he takes In firmamental waters dipt above; Of it a broad extinguisher he makes, And hoods tiie flames that to their quarry drove." But another passage in Dryden is carried to a still greater...
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Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by ...

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...Blackmore, Ps. civ. p. 263. t P. 75. $ P. 170. " An hollow crystal pyramid he takes, In firmameutal waters dipt above ; Of it a broad extinguisher he...And hoods the flames that to their quarry drove." But another passage in Dryden is carried to a still greater length of profaneness and absurdity in...
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