 | Collection - English poetry - 1755 - 378 pages
...darling fchemes opprefs'4, When vengeance liftens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry wifh th' affliftive dart, Each gift of nature, and each...pow'rful breath, And reftlefs fire precipitates on death. f But fcarce obferv'd the knowing and the bold, Fall in the gen'ral maflacre of gold ; Wide-wafting... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...darling fchemes opprefs'd, When vengeance liflens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry wifh th' affliftive dart, Each gift of nature, and each...grace of art, With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, i With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows, Impeachment flops the fpeaker's pow'rful breafh, And reftlefs... | |
 | Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...darling fchemes opprefs'd, When vengeance liftens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry wifh th' affliftive dart. Each gift of nature, and each...grace of art, With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, '.; 'i With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows, Impeachment flops the fpeaker's pow'rful breath, And reftlefs... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 412 pages
...opprefs'd, When vengeance liftens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with every wifh th' afflictive dart, Each, gift of nature, and each grace of art,...pow'rful breath, And reftlefs fire precipitates on death. b But fcarce obferv'd the knowing and the bold, Fall in the gen'ral maflacre of gold ; Wide-wafting... | |
 | English poetry - 1765 - 414 pages
...opprefs'd, "When vengeance liftens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with every wifh th' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art,..."With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows, Impeachment ftops the fpeaker's pow'rful breath, And reftlefs fire precipitates on death. b But fcarce obferv'd... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...requeft. Fate wings with every wifh th' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art, V ' With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows, Impeachment ftops the fpeaker's pow'rful breath, And reftlefs fire precipitates on death. b But fcarce obferv'd... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1770 - 402 pages
...wings with every wifh th' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art, . . . \Vith fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal fweetnefs...pow'rful breath, And reftlefs fire precipitates on death. b But fcarce obferv'd the knowing and the bold, Fall in the gen'ral maflacre of gold ; Wide-wafting... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...opprefs'd, When Vengeance liftens to the Fool's Requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry Wifh th' afflictive Dart, Each Gift of Nature, and each Grace of Art,...With fatal Heat impetuous Courage glows, With fatal Sweetnjfs Elocution flows, Impeachment ftops the Speaker's pow'rful Breath, And reftlefs Fire precipitates... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...opprefs'd, When Vengeance liftens to the Fool's Requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry Wifli th' afflictive Dart, Each Gift of Nature, and each Grace of Art, With fatal Heat impetuous Courage glows, . ,. i With fatal Sweetnsfs Elocution flows, - .. ic;i"' Impeachment flops the Speaker's ppw'rful Breath,... | |
 | English poetry - 1781 - 512 pages
...opprefs'd, When vengeance liflens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry wifh th' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art ;...With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows ; Impeachment ftops the fpeaker's pow'rful h/eath, And reftlefs fire precipitates on death. Bat fcarce obferv'd,... | |
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... mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good. How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Rules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant voice, How nations sink, by darling schemes oppress'd, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request.... 
