 | 1865 - 342 pages
...insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own. At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe ; Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Henry William Dulcken - 1865 - 410 pages
...insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own : At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe ; Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...their pleasures only to destroy! Kingdoms by thee to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigor not their own. At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank, unwieldy woe ; Till, sapped their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Forster Blanchard - 1867 - 200 pages
...insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own : At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe ; Till, sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | Margaret T. Downing - 1867 - 394 pages
...as in the following extract: Kingdonis by th.ee to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigor not their own. At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank, unwieldly woe, Till sapped their strength and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1868 - 276 pages
...insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own ; At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe — Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pages
...insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown. Boast s, Embosom 'd in the deep where Holland lies. M mass of rank unwieldy woe j Till sapped their strength, and every part unsound. Down, down tljey sink,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 pages
...Insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures onlv to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee. to sickly greatness grown. Boast of a florid vigour not their own. At every draught more large and large they Л bloated mass, of rank unwieldy wo« ; Till snpp'd their strength, and every pert unsound. Down,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1870 - 456 pages
...insidious joy, Diffuse thy pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own; At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unwieldy wo — Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own : At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe ; Till, sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
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O luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are things like these for thee! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy! Kingdoms, by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid... 
