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The works of John Dryden

Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author, by Sir Walter Scott

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High o'er the clouds, and empty realms of wind,
The God a clearer space for heaven designed;
Where fields of light and liquid ether flow,
Purged from the ponderous dregs of earth below.