So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devi…

John Dryden
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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. ✨ John Dryden (1701). Poems on Various Occasions: And Translations from Several Authors, p.10
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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. ✨ John Dryden (1701). Poems on Various Occasions: And Translations from Several Authors, p.10

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