 | Joseph Matkin - 1993 - 512 pages
...preachers. You know what Dryden says of these sects & people — "A rambling crew of dreaming lambs succeed of the true old enthusiastic breed; 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build, & all things to destroy."2 The Newspaper paragraph in reference to... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 1997 - 146 pages
...never is. The midwife placed her hand on his thick skull, With this prophetic hlessing: Be ihou dull. A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed, Of the true old enthusiastic hreed. This is audacious and splendid; it helongs to satire hesides which Marvell's Satires are random... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pages
...grace?* These led the pack, though not of surest scent Yet deepest-mouthed against the government. A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed, Of the true old enthusiastic breed; 530 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build, and all things to destroy. But... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...grace. These led the pack; though not of surest scent, Yet deepest mouthed against the government.0 A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed, Of the true old enthusiastic breed: 530 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build, and all things to destroy. But... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 300 pages
...never is. The midwife placed her hand on his thick skull, With this prophetic blessing: Be thou dull. A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed, Of the true old enthusiastic breed.40 This is audacious and splendid; it belongs to satire, besides which Marvell's "Satires" are... | |
 | John Harvey Francis - 1929 - 264 pages
...inspiration. These led the pack ; though not of surest scent, 105 Yet deepest mouthed against the government. A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed Of the...enthusiastic breed : 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. no But far more numerous was the herd of... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 pages
...surest scent, Yet deepest mouthed against the government. A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed 530 Of the true old enthusiastic breed: 'Gainst form and order they their pow'r employ Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such... | |
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Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. These out of mere instinct, they knew not why, Adored their fathers... 
