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Critical and historical essays, contributed to The Edinburgh review - Page 167
by Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pages
...grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : * And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 11

John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pages
...grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : * And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 4

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 pages
...by it's subject in these lines: ' Be kind to my remains : and, O ! defend, Against your judgement, your departed friend; Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you.' Dryden was a man of various and extensive, rather than of...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you :* And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 24

British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my Remains ; and O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not the' insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you ; And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Dryden

Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 pages
...grace adorn. Whom I forsee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remaina ; and O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, ' But shade those laurels which descend to you; And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit...
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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 23

1838 - 1104 pages
...which dictated that book might well implore : — " Be kind to my remains ; and oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ; Let not the insulting FOE my fame pursue, But shade those honours, which descend to you." We have now done with the case of Nelson. Let the wrong...
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The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With ...

William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 784 pages
...adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit...
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The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, Volume 2

William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 782 pages
...adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune horn, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to joo : And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 72

1841 - 596 pages
...adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh, defend Agajnst your judgment your departed friend ; Let not the insulting...gradually came over to the opinion of the men of note 5 and the ' Double-Dealer' was before long quite as much admired, though perhaps never so much liked,...
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