 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pages
...Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply. In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or shipwracked labour to some distant shore, Or in dark churches walk among the dead; 72 stand *>yx The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their maintop joyful news they hear... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...which little souls but ill supply. In dreams they fearful precipices tread : Or, shipwreck'd, labor sses, is Ihy force confin'd : But to the bowel'd cavern darling deep, The mineral kinds confess t sleeo no more. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top joyful news they... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 726 pages
...to seize upon Ministers, as it did upon the Holland fleet in Dryden's Annus Mirabilis : " In dream^ they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwrecked, labour...They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more." The Conservative press, not content with depicting Ministers as the prey of such gloomy forebodings as... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 372 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply. 7i In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or shipwracked labour to some distant shore, Or in dark churches...dead; They wake with horror and dare sleep no more. 73 scam* daft The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their maintop joyful news they hear... | |
 | 1878 - 728 pages
...would appear to seize upon Ministers, as it did upon the Holland fleet in Dryden's Annas Mirabilis : " In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwrecked, labour to some distant shore ; Or in da1k churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep.no more." The Conservative... | |
 | 1878 - 720 pages
...would appear to seize upon Ministers, as it did upon the Holland fleet in Dryden's Annus Mirabilis : " In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwrecked, labour to some distant shore ; Or m datk churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more." The Conservative... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pages
...bulks, which little souls but ill supply. 7i In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or shipwracked labour to some distant shore, Or in dark churches walk among the dead; 72 second da?s The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their maintop joyful news they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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,... | |
 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - 1883 - 444 pages
...; Faint sweats all down their mighty members run (Vast hulks which little souls but ill supply). " In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwrecked,...; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more." We do not know whether the reader will agree with us, but we look upon these verses as wonderfully... | |
 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - 1883 - 436 pages
...they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or in dark thurches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more." We do not know whether the reader will agree with us, but we look upon these verses as wonderfully... | |
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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... 
