 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 pages
...fupply. LXXI. b drums they fearful precipices tread : Or, Ihipwrrck'd, labour to fome diftant more : Or in dark churches walk among the dead: They wake with horror and dare deep no more. LXXII. The mom they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top joyful news... | |
 | 1801 - 416 pages
...little souls but ill supply.) 280 • r xxi. In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore; Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and d. re sleep no more. i.xxn. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their maintop joyful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...ill fupply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, fhipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant fhore: Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare fleep no more. 4 It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated ' terms of art'fhould be funk... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour 10 some distant shore : Or, in dark chufches, walk among the dead ; * They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or in dark churches...They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till, from their main- top, joyful news they hear Of ships,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...ill {apply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, fhipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant more: Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare deep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art fhould be funk in... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...Faint sweats all down their mighty members run. Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply. 71. In dreams they fearful precipices tread; Or, shipwrecked,...dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. 72. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top joyful news they hear Of ships,... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, • Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or in dark churches...They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till, from their main-top, joyful news they hear Of ships, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore : Or, in dark churches,...dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore : Or, in dark churches,...dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. t It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions... | |
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Holland fleet, who, tir'il and done, Stretch'd on their decks, like weary oxen lie : Faint sweats all down their mighty members run, (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, • Or, shipwreck'd, labour... 
