 | John Gay - Fables - 1728 - 218 pages
...have born the chain? Confider, friends, your ftrength and might j 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right. How cumb'rous is the gilded coach! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-fhare through the foil, To fweat in harnefs through the... | |
 | Complete fabulist - 1732 - 402 pages
...we defign'd for daily toil ? To drag the. ploughfhare "thro' the foil ? To 'iweat in harnefs thro' the road ? To groan beneath the carrier's load ? How feeble are the two-legg'd kind ! What force is in our nerves combin'd ! Shall then our nobler jaws fubmit To foam... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1770 - 204 pages
...borne the chain ? Confider, friends, your ftrength and might ; 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right. How How cumb'rous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-mare through the foil ; To fweat in harnefs through the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 330 pages
...borne the chain ? Confider, Friends! your ftrength and might ; 15 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right; How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-fliare through the foil, 2* To fweat in harnefs through... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 316 pages
...borne the chain ? Confider, Friends! your ftrength and might; 15 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-fhare through the foil, 20 To fweat in harnefs through... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...borne the chain ? Conlider, friends, your ftrcngth and might ! 'Tis conqueil to allert your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we dcfign'd for daily toil, To drag the ploughlhare through the foil, To fweat in harncfs through the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...borne the chain > l?onfider, friends, your ftrength and might) Tis conqueft to aflcrt your right. rlow . MASON. tj" RE yet, ingenuous youth, thy fteps retire [vale, From Cam's dengn'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-mare through the foi^ To Iweat in harnefs through the road,... | |
 | John Gay - Fables, English - 1792 - 250 pages
...chain ? Confidcr, friends, your Jtrength and night, 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right. • — '' How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toilr •> To drag the plough-mare through the foil, \ To fweat in harnefs through... | |
 | John Gay - Fables - 1793 - 356 pages
...reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-mare through the foil, To fweat in harnefs through the road, To groan beneath the carrier's load...the two legg'd kind ! What force is in our nerves cornbin'd \ Shall then our nobler jaws fubmit To foam and champ the galling bit ? Shall haughty man... | |
 | John Gay - 1796 - 284 pages
...have borne the chain ? Consider, friends, your strength and might; 'Tis conquest to assert your right. How cumb'rous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man...daily toil, To drag the plough-share through the soil, To sweat in harness through the road, To groan beneath the CARRIER'S load ? How feeble are the two-legg'd... | |
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Tis conquest to assert your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we... 
