| George Crabbe - 1823 - 376 pages
...While skill, like spurs and feeding, gives the arm " The wicked power to do the greater harm : " Maim'd in the strife, the falling man sustains " Th' insulting...obey ; " Then die, and leave us to our griefs a prey f Sir Owen Dale his fortieth year had seen, With temper placid, and with mind serene ; Rich ; early... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...'tis true, — Hot he would art as he was wont to do, Ami bring his morals in his neighbour's view 0! born, Worth more than those of gladness, Which Mirth's bright ; r? ." the madness of their will obey; foea die, and leave us to our griefs a prey ! 67 to Owen Dale... | |
| 1847 - 540 pages
...wave. BARFORD'S Virgin Queen. 13. The passions are a numerous crowd, Imperious, positive, and loud. 14. O, how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our...obey ; Then die, and leave us to our griefs a prey ! C RABBI. 15. Ah ! within my bosom beating, Varying passions wildly reign ; Love, with proud resentment... | |
| 1847 - 526 pages
...wave. BARFORD'S Virgin Queen. 13. The passions are a numerous crowd, Imperious, positive, and loud. 14. O, how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our...obey ; Then die, and leave us to our griefs a prey ! CRABBE. 15. Ah ! within my bosom beating, Varying passions wildly reign ; Lave, with proud resentment... | |
| George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...true, — But he would act as he was wont to do, And bring his morals in his neighbour's view. " Oh ! how the passions, insolent and strong, " Bear our weak minds their rapid course along ; [The opening stands thus in the original MS. : — Bleak was tlie morn : said Richard, with я sigh,... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...oversets the vessel. Higgcms. The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules. Brooke. O, how the pasKions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid...obey; Then die, and leave us to our griefs a prey! Crabbe. A night of fretful passion may consume All that thou hast of beauty's gentle bloom, And one... | |
| Harriet Beaufort, Lessons, Author of Bertha's journal - 1854 - 298 pages
...life condemned to be a desokte and wandering existence — hung heavily on his mind. CHAPTER XV. Oh ! how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak...obey ; Then die, and leave us to our griefs a prey ! CRABBE. AND now — winter had set in ; but not the clear, frosty winter that used to revive the... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...hour ; And O, when passion rules, how rare The hours that fall to virtue's share ! Seott's Robelry. O how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid eourse along ; Make us the madness of their will obey ; Then die, and leave us to our griefs a prey... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...hour ; And O, when passion rules, how rare The hours that fall to virtue's share ! Seoffs Robeky. О how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid eourse along ; Make us the madness of their will obey ; Tin n die, and leave us to our griefs a prey... | |
| 1856 - 570 pages
...pain, the penitence, the Wo, That Passion brings down on the best, The wisest and the loveliest. bow the Passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds...obey ; Then die, and leave us to our griefs a Prey ! Cf)e |JaS0UmS.— Byron. stopt, and raised her head to speak, but paused And then moved on again... | |
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