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" By how much more the ship her safety owes To him who steers, than him that only rows; By how much more the captain merits praise, Than he who fights, and fighting but obeys; By so much greater is my worth than thine, Who canst but execute what I design. "
The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ... - Page 81
by John Dryden - 1767
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Fables Antient and Modern: Translated Into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace ...

John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...War : Thy Province is to Fight ; but when fliall be The time to Fight, the King confults with me : No dram of Judgment with thy Force is join'd ; Thy Body is of Profit, and my Mind. But how much more the Ship her Safety owes To him who fleers, than him that only rows, By how much...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 4

John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 476 pages
.../hall be The time to fight, the king confults with me: No dram of judgment with thy force isjoin'd; Thy body is of profit, and my mind. By how much more the fhip her fafety owes To him who fteers, than him that only rows, By how much more the captain merits praife Than he who fights, and...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...the war : Thy province is to fight, but when fhall be The time to fight, the king confults with me: No dram of judgment with thy force is join'd ; Thy body is of profit, and my rnind. By how much more the fhip of fafety owes To him who fleers, than him that only rows ; By how...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...fhall be The time to fight, the king confults w:th me : No dram of judgment with thy force is join'd -r Thy body is of profit, and my mind. By how much more the fhip of fafcty owes To him who fleers, than him that only rows j. By how much more the captaifl merits pr.:ife...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 366 pages
...The time to filjht, the kin" confuhs with me : D ' c' No dram of judgment w:th thy iorce is jotn'd ; Thy body is of profit, and my mind. By how much more the fi:ip of fafety owes To him who Heers, than him that only rows ; By how much more the captain merits...
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Fables ancient and modern, tr. into verse: with original poems, Volume 2

John Dryden - 1771 - 256 pages
...of Judgment with thy force is joio'd. Thy body is of profit, and my mind. But how much more the (hip her fafety owes To him who fleers, than him that only rows. By how much more the captain merils praife Than he who (iyhts, and fighting but obeys ; By fo much greater is my worth than ihine.Who...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...the war : Thy province is to fight, but when mall Be The time to fight, the king confults with me : No dram of judgment with thy force is join'd ; Thy...of profit, and my mind. By how much more the fhip of fafety owes To him who fleers, than him that orrly rows ; By how much more the captain merits praifc...
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Dryden. Smyth. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 658 pages
...mail he 'The time to fight, the king confnlts with me: No diam of judgment with thy lorce is joUi'df Thy body is of profit, and my mind. By how much more the /hip of fafety owes To him who (hers, thsn him that onty iows} By how much more the captain merits...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 3

Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pages
...but when (hall be The time to fight, the king conlults with me : No dtam of judgment with thy (orce is join'd ; Thy body is of profit, and my mind. By how much more the ftiip of fafety owes To him who fteers, than him that only rows ; у how much more the captain merits...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 12

John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 496 pages
...Thy body is of profit, and my mind. But, how much more the ship her safety owes To him who steers, than him that only rows ; By how much more the captain merits praise Than he who fights, and, fighting, but obeys ; By so much greater is my worth than thine, Who...
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