 If ancient fabrics nod and threat to fall, To patch the flaws and buttress up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty : but here fix the mark ; For all beyond it is to touch our ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels who base ends pursue,...  The Works of the English Poets: Dryden - Page 152de Samuel Johnson - 1779Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch the flaws, and buttress up the wall, Tims far 't is to that subject, after the example of Horace, in his Firs our ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue, At once... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 pages
...is the blow of fate. 800 If ancient fabrics nod and threat to fall, To patch the flaws and buttress up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty : but here fix the mark ; For all beyond it is to touch our ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels who base ends pursue, At once... | |
 | John Dryden - 1923 - 196 pages
...is the blow of fate. 800 If ancient fabrics nod and threat to fall, To patch the flaws and buttress up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty : but here fix the mark ; ""• For all beyond it is to touch our ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels who base ends pursue, At once... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch the flaws, and buttress up the wall, Thus far 't is ckly brought the leader's bleeding head Into the bag that h our ark. 800 To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue,... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 pages
...election or dispute: If ancient Fabricks nod, and threat to fall, To Patch the Flaws, and Buttress up the Wall, Thus far 'tis Duty; but here fix the Mark: For all beyond it is to touch our Ark. To change Foundations, cast the Frame anew, Is work for Rebels who base Ends pursue . . .... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1993 - 276 pages
...is the Blow of Fate. If ancient Fabricks nod, and threat to fall, To Patch the Flaws, and Buttress up the Wall, Thus far 'tis Duty; but here fix the Mark: For all beyond it is to touch our Ark. To change Foundations, cast the Frame anew, Is work for Rebels who base Ends pursue: At once... | |
 | Marsha Keith Schuchard - 2002 - 872 pages
...innovation is the blow of fate. If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch the flaws, and buttress up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty. But here fix the mark For all beyond it is to touch our ark. To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue, At once... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pages
...is the blow of fate. Soo If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch the flaws and buttress up the wall Thus far 'tis duty; but here fix the mark, For all beyond it is to touch our ark.* To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels who base ends pursue, At once... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...the blow of fate.c 800 If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, ' To patch the flaws, and buttress up the wall, Thus far 'tis duty. But here fix the mark For all beyond it is to touch our ark.0 To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue, At... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 pages
...innovation is the blow of fate. If ancient fabrics nod and threat to fall, To patch the flaws and buttress up the wall. Thus far 'tis duty; but here fix the mark, For all beyond it is to touch our ark. 805 To change foundations, cast the frame anew, Is work for rebels who base ends pursue, At... | |
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