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 - 第 152 頁Samuel Johnson 著 - 1779完整檢視 - 關於此書
| John Dryden - 1874 - 388 頁
...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, 805 Is work for rebels who base ends pursue, At... | |
| John Dryden - 1874 - 376 頁
...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. ITo change foundations, cast the frame anew, 805 Is work for rebels who base ends pursue,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1877 - 466 頁
...If ancient fabrics nod and threat to fall, To patch their flaws, and buttress up the wall, So far is duty ; but here fix the mark : For all beyond it, is to touch the ark.' Dryden, Abs. and Achit. 1. 23. hack that aged parent in pieces. So in Speech on Parliamentary Reform,... | |
| John Dryden - 1878 - 368 頁
...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, 805 Is work for rebels who base ends pursue, At... | |
| John Dryden - 1893 - 194 頁
...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, Walter Scott - 1884 - 478 頁
...Dryden's own time " buttress of" appears in some editions, but was clearly a printer's error. — ED.] 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, 805 Is work for rebels, who base ends... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 480 頁
...Dryden's own time " buttress of" appears in some editions, but was clearly a printer's error. — ED.] 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, 805 Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue ;... | |
| John Dryden - 1900 - 760 頁
...fate. 800 If ancient fabrics nod and threat f 6" fall, To patch the flaws and buttress up the wall,t 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, 805 Is work for rebels who base ends pursue, At... | |
| 1863 - 612 頁
...follow him when they've believed him. " To patch up flaws, and buttress up the wall, — So far is duty ; but here fix the mark : For all beyond it is to touch the ark." DRYOEN, Absalom and Acldtnphel. Conservative writers have always tried to represent the pile of the... | |
| John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 頁
...800 If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall, To patch the flaws, and buttress up the wall, Tb-us far 'tis duty: but here fix the mark; F/or all beyond it is to touch our ark. To change foundations, east the frame anew, Is work for rebels, who base ends pursue, ,/At... | |
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