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" By the mercy of God, I am already come within twenty years of his number, a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. "
Littell's Living Age - Page 73
1872
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The poetical works of John Dryden, ed. by C.C. Clarke

John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...and eight before they judged him. By the mercy of God, I am already come within twenty years of his number, a cripple in my limbs ; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is...
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The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 534 pages
...and eight before they judged him. By the mercy of God, I am already come within twenty years of his number ; a cripple in my limbs, — but what decays are in my mind the reader must determine. I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3

John Dryden - 1891 - 352 pages
...and eight before they judged him. By the mercy of God, I am already come within twenty years of his number, a cripple in my limbs ; but what decays are in my mind, the reader mustdetermine. I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory,...
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English Literary Criticism

Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 pages
...fourscore-and-eight before they judged him. By the mercy of God, I am already come within twenty years of his number, a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is...
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Essays of John Dryden: Dedication of Examen poeticum. A discourse concerning ...

John Dryden - 1900 - 348 pages
...eight before they judged him. By the mercy of God, I am already come within 20 twenty years of his number ; a cripple in my limbs, but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is...
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A History of English Literature and of the Chief English Writers: Founded on ...

Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 pages
...and eight before they judged him. By the mercy of God, I am already tome within twenty years of his number, a cripple in my limbs ; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine." § II. " Thoughts," he says in the same place, " come crowding on so fast upon me, that my only difficulty...
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Composition and Rhetoric

Maude Radford Warren - 1903 - 408 pages
...and eight before they judged him. By the mercy of God, I am already come within twenty years of his number; a cripple in my limbs, — but what decays are in my mind the reader must determine. I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is...
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Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism

William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
...four-score-and-eight before they judged him. By the mercy of God, I am already come within twenty years of his number, a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden

John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 pages
...sensible himself, yet the malicious world will find it for him ; yet there is still a vast differ- ~j ence betwixt the slovenly butchering of a , man, and the fineness of a stroke that sepa- • rates the head from the body, and leaves it j standing in its place. A man may be capable,...
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The Preface to the Fables

John Dryden - 1912 - 436 pages
...and eight before they juclg'd him. By the Mercy of God, I am already come within Twenty Years of his Number, a Cripple in my Limbs, but what Decays are in my .Mind, the Reader must determine. I think my self as vigorous as ever in the Faculties of my Soul, excepting only my .Memory, which is...
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