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" And slow advancing struggle with the stream: But, if they slack their hands, or cease to strive, Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive. "
The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical - Page 128
by Alexander Chalmers - 1856
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Select British Classics, Volume 19

1803 - 254 pages
...prono rapit alveus amni. VlRO. Thus all below, whether by Nature's curse, Or faie's decree, degen'rate still to worse. So the boat's brawny crew the current...advancing, struggle with the stream : But if they siack their hands, or cease to strive, Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive. DRYDE y....
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 14

John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...fully cured, Unless the peasant, with his annual pain, Kcnews his choice, and culls the largest grain. Thus all below, whether by Nature's curse, Or Fate's...stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : Uut, if they slack their hands, or cease to strive, Then down the flood with headlong haste they...
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The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ...

John Dryden - 1808 - 504 pages
...fully cured, Unless the peasant, with his annual pain, Renews his choice, and culls the largest grain. Thus all below, whether by Nature's curse, Or Fate's decree, degenerate still to worse. So the beat's brawny crew the current stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : But, if they slack...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...fully cur'd; Unless the peasant, with his annual pain, Renews his choice, and culls the largest grain. Thus all below, whether by Nature's curse, Or Fate's...slow advancing, struggle with the stream : But if tbey slack their bands, or cease to strive, Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive. Nor...
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The Spectator, Volume 1

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 394 pages
...si bracfiia forte remisit, I *1trjtu: ilium in praceps prone rapit alveut amni. VIRG. Georg. i. 201. So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, And, slow...struggle with the stream : But if they slack their bands, or cease to strive, Then down the flood with headlong haste they drivr. DBYDEN. IT is with much...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Pope's Homer's ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...fully our'd ; Unless the peasant, with his annual pain, Renews his choice, and culls the largest grain. Thus all below, whether by Nature's curse, Or Fate's...decree, degenerate still to worse. So the boat's brawny crtw the current stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream: \ But if they slack their hands,...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 10, Parts 1-2

1813 - 432 pages
...fully cur'd, Unless the peasant, with his annual pain, Renews his choice, and culls the largest grain. Thus all below, whether by Nature's curse, Or Fate's...stem, And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream : Unt, if they slack their hands, or cease to strive, Then down the flood with headlong haste they...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 14

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 pages
...fully cured, Unless the peasant, with his annual pain, Renews his choice, and culls the largest grain. Thus all below, whether by nature's curse, Or fate's...their hands, or cease to strive, Then down the flood withheadlonghastethey drive. Nor must the ploughman less observe the skies, When the Kids, Dragon,...
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The British Essayists: Adventurer

1823 - 324 pages
...Remigiis subigit : si brachia forte remisil, Alque ilium in pr&ceps prono rapit alveus amni. VIRG. Thus all below, whether by nature's curse, Or fate's...But if they slack their hands, or cease to strive, Tin-it down the flood with headlong haste they drive. DRYDEN. "THERE came one morning to inquire for...
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English Synonymes Explained

George Crabb - 1826 - 736 pages
...that fulfil, Mankind excepted, lord of all betide, But only slave to folly, vice, and ptide. Jenynp So the boat's brawny crew the current stem, And slow advancing struggle with the stream. ENDEAVOUR, EFFORT, EXEHTIOX. ENDEAVOUR, ». attempt, and To endeavour. EFFORT, is changed from the...
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