 And if we would speak true, Much to the man is due, Who from his private gardens, where He lived reserved and austere, As if his highest plot To plant the bergamot, Could by industrious valour climb To ruin the great work of Time, And cast the kingdoms...  Old Portraits and Modern Sketches - Page 106by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...climb To rain the great work of time, And csst the kingdoms old Into another mould ! Though j ustice o be plain, my good lord, it's but labour misplac'd,...one of your taste ; You've got au odd something hateth emptiness, Allows of penetration less, And therefore must make room Where greater spirits come.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...east the kingdoms old Into another mould ! Though justiee against fate eomplain, And plead the aneient a hateth emptiness, Allows of penetration less, And therefore must make room Where greater spirits eome.... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1833 - 764 pages
...Oliver Cromwell. The lines are noble : — AN HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND. • * * Though justice against fate complain, And plead the...or break, As men are strong or weak. Nature, that hatcth emptiness, Allows of penetration less ; And therefore must make room Where greater spirits come.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pages
...only with the winepress." The following fine lines are from his Horatian ode to Oliver Cromwell :— " Though justice against fate complain, And plead the...or break, As men are strong or weak. Nature, that hateth emptiness, Allows of penetration less ; And therefore must make room Where greater spirits come.... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...lines are noble : — AN HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND. * • • Though j ustice against fate complain, And plead the ancient rights...or break, As men are strong or weak. Nature, that hateth emptiness, Allows of penetration less ; And therefore must make room Where greater spirits come.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...Cromwell :— " Though justico against fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain : líut those do hold or break, As men are strong or weak. Nature, ib. п hateth emptiness, Л lim-.- ol penetration less ; And therefore must make room Where greater... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1841 - 564 pages
...private gardens, where He lived reserved and austere As if his highest plot To plant the bergamot Could by industrious valor climb To ruin the great work...time And cast the Kingdoms old Into another mould. " In retirement we first become acquainted with ourselves, our means, and ends. There no strange form... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...gardens, where He lived reserved and nustere, (As if his highest pint To plant the bergamot,) Could by industrious valor climb To ruin the great work of time, And cnst the kingdoms old Into another mould ! Though justice against fate complain, And plead the ancient... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...where lie lived reserved and austere, As if his >. i ••!,c•- 1 plot, To plant the Bergamot, Could by industrious valor climb To ruin the great work...Time, And cast the kingdoms old Into another mould. " But, where virtues and talents have alike contributed to invest an individual with this authority... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...He lived reserved and austere, As if his highest plot, To plant the Bergamot, Could by ipdustrious valor climb To ruin the great work of Time, And cast the kingdoms old Into another mould." But, where virtues and talents have alike contributed to invest an indi vidual with this authority... | |
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