 | Helen Maria Williams - 1798 - 372 pages
...the juvenile mimics of great and little councils, Ammans, Avoyers, Grand * " But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, " Rich with the fpoils of time did ne'er unroll." GRAY'S ELEGY. .Sautiers, Seteeniers, Bannerets, and Bailiffs, Notwithstanding the chief ntagiftracy... | |
 | Helen Maria Williams - 1798 - 368 pages
...the juvenile mimics of great and little councils, Ammans, Avoyers, Grand * " But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, '? Rich with the fpoils of time did ne'er unroiy GRAY'S ELEGY. Seizeniers, Bannerets, and Bailiffs, • . Notwithstanding the chief magiftracy... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1798 - 130 pages
...the filent duft, Or Flatt'ry foothe the dull cold ear of death ? 44 Perhaps in this negledtcd !pot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celeftial fire. Hands that the rod cf empire, might have fway'd, Or wak'd to ecftacy the living lyre. ' 48 But Knowledge to their eyes... | |
 | British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
...provoke the filent duft, Or Flatt'ry foothe the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this negleSed fpot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celeftial fire...that the rod of empire might have fway'd, Or wak'd to ecftacy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the fpoils of time,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 pages
...laid Sume heart unce pregnant with celt dial fire ; Hands, that the roj of empire might havt (way'd, Or wak'd to extafy the living lyre. But Knowledge...page. Rich with the fpoils of time, did ne'er unroll; СЫ1 l'enury reprcfs'd their noble rage, d froze the genial current of the foul. J many a gem of pureft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 542 pages
...provoke the filrnt dull, OrFlatfry footh the dull cold et of De«th> Ferhapi in this neglefied (pot is' laid Some heart once pregnant with celeftial fire : Hands, that the rod of empire might have I'way'd, Or wak'd to extafy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page.... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...provoke the tilent duft, Or flattery footh the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this neglected fpot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celeftial fire; Hands, that the rod of empires might have fwav'd, Or wak'd to ecflafy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 538 pages
...of empire might have fway'd, Or wak'd to cxtafy the living lyreBut knowledge to their eyes her imple page, Rich with the fpoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill penury reprei's'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the foul. Full many a gem of pureft ny... | |
 | 1801 - 676 pages
...in Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard it is thus written :— " Perhaps in this negle&ed fpot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celeftial fire:...that the rod of empire might have fway'd, Or wak'd to ecftacy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the fpoils of time,... | |
 | 1803 - 250 pages
...and Irom the f'ght of man, till the heavens be no more.—Watti. PERHAPS in this neglected fpot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celeftial fire : Hands that the rod of empire might have fway'd, Rich with the fpoils of time, did ne'er unroll; Chill penury repixfs'd their noble rage, Or wak'd to... | |
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Rich with the fpoils of Time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury reprefs'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the foul. 
