 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 330 pages
...enlivening odours breathe, Or spread with vernal bloom the purple heath ? " Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey,6 45 And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 pages
...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,...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 laid... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...industry 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,...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 laid... | |
 | 1854 - 974 pages
...miles, is mentioned by many historians, and is thus alluded to by Pope in hia ' Windsor Forest,' — ' in ages past, A dreary desert and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage lords a prey, And things more furious and severe than they.' Walter Mapes says, that ' the Conqueror... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...plains, And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. WINDSOR FOREST UNDER THE SAVAGE WILLIAMS. Not thus the land appeared in ages past, A dreary desert, and...air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid waste, they stormed the dens and caves — For wiser brutes were backward to be... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell a Stuart l reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws2 a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they ; 1 * Stuart : ' Queen Anne.—2 ' Savage... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell a Stuart l reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws2 a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they ; 1 ' Stuart : ' Queen Anne.— ' ' Savage... | |
 | William Dowling - 1857 - 412 pages
...Industry 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...laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than the)" ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...sits smiling on the plains, &jid peace and plenty tell, a Stuart rogiw. r Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste,...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 - 1860 - 542 pages
...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 lawst a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and... | |
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Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they... 
