 | 1800 - 322 pages
...hands with dust, and calls the worm his kinsman ! Nor pleads his rank and birth-right. Underground Precedency's a jest; vassal and lord; Grossly familiar, side by side consume. When self esteem, or other's adulation, Would cunningly persuade us we are something Above the common... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1802 - 160 pages
...humble, like a child that's whipp'd, Shakes hands with dust, and calls the worm his kinsman ; Nor pleads his rank and birthright. Under ground Precedency's...and lord, Grossly familiar, side, by side consume. When self-esteem, or others' adulation, Would cunningly persuade us we were something Above the common... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...humble, like a child that's whipp'd, Shakes hands with dust, and calls the worm his kinsman Nor pleads his rank and birthright. Under ground Precedency's a jest; vassal and lord, >• Grossly familial, side by side consume, When self esteem, or others' adulation, Would cunningly persuade us... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...humble, like a child that's whipp'd, Shakes hands with dust, and calls the worm his kinsman! Nor pleads his rank and birth-right. Under ground Precedency's...and lord, Grossly familiar, side by side consume. When self-esteem, or other's adulation, Would cunningly persuade us we are something Above the common... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...humble like a child that's whip'd, Shakes hands with dust, and calls the worm his kinsman Nor pleads hi* rank and birthright. Under ground Precedency's a jest;...and lord, Grossly familiar, side by side consume. When self-esteem, or others' adulation, Would cunningly persuade us we were something Above the common... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...humble, like a child that's whipp'd, Shakes hands with dust, and calls the worm his kinsman! Nor pleads his rank and birthright. Under ground Precedency's...and lord, Grossly familiar, side by side consume. When self-esteem, or other's adulation, Would cunningly persuade us we are something Above the common... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 pages
...like a child that's whippM, Shakes hands with dust, and calls the worm hit kinsman; ' , j Nor pleads his rank and birthright. Under ground, Precedency's...and lord, Grossly familiar, side by side consume. When self-esteem, or other's adulation. Would cunningly persuade us we arc something Above the common... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 686 pages
...hands with dust, and calls the worm hie kinsman; • Nor plead» his rank nud birthright. Underground, Precedency's a jest; vassal and lord, Grossly familiar, side by side consume, £. i¿> When self-esteem, or other's adulation. Would cunningly persuade us we are something Above... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...humble, like a child that's whipp'd, Shakes hands with dust, and calls the worm his kinsman; Nor pleads his rank and birthright. Under ground Precedency's...and lord, Grossly familiar, side by side consume. When self-esteem, or others' adulation, Would cunningly persuade us we were something Above the common... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pages
...The Grave gainsays the smooth-complexion'd And with blunt truth acquaints us what we are. Nor pleads his rank and birthright. Under ground, Precedency's...and lord, Grossly familiar, side by side consume. Beauty!—thou pretty plaything, dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And... | |
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... of prey, Deaf to the forceful cries of gnawing hunger, And piteous plaintive voice of misery, (As if a slave was not a shred of nature, Of the same common nature... 
