| John Bell - 1796 - 524 páginas
...sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear' d in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, 4 5 And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 páginas
...sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert and a gloomy waste ; To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, 43 And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 páginas
...sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'..! the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 páginas
...sits smiling on the plains, Aml peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 páginas
...sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appcar'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 308 páginas
...sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns Not thus the land appear'd in ages past,. A. dreary desert, and a gloomy waste,...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods ; The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Mot thus the land appcar'd iri ages past, A dreaiy desart, and a gloomy waste ; To savage beasts and savage laws...prey ; And kings more furious and severe than they; Whoclaim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
| Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 166 páginas
...pointed out, and are much wanted. England should not be now, as — • In ages past, A dreary desart, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts, and savage laws...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they." POPE. In spite of the present gloomy aspect of affairs, it must be evident to any one who will look... | |
| Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 458 páginas
...pointed out, and are much Wanted. England should not be now, as — • In ages past, A dreary desurt, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts, and savage laws...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they." POPE. In spite of the present gloomy aspect of affairs, it must bo evident to any one who will look... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 páginas
...sits smiling on the plains, and peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, a dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, to...prey, and kings more furious and severe than they; who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and iloi the lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities laid... | |
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