 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 448 pages
...parents watch the remnants of their ftore. 259While by the motion of the flames they guefs What ftreets are burning now, and what are near, An infant waking to the paps would prefs, And meets, inftead of milk, a falling tear. 260. No thought can eafethembuttheirfovereign's... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 318 pages
...parents watch the remnants of their ftore. 259. While by the motion of the flames they guefs What ftreets are burning now, and what are near, An infant waking to the paps would prefs, And-meets, inftead of milk, a falling tear. 260. No thought can eafe them but their fovereign's... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...while through hurning lab'rynths they retire, With loathing eyes repeat what they would shun. CCLVIII. The most in fields, like herded beasts, lie down,...dews obnoxious, on the grassy floor; And, while their habes in sleep their sorrows drown, Sad parents watch the remnants of their store. CCLIX. While by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 350 pages
...watch the remnants of their ftore. CCLIX. While by the motion of the flames they guefs What ftreets are burning now, and what are near, An infant waking to the paps would prefs, And meets, inftead of milk, a falling tear. CCLX. No thought can eafe them but their fovereign's... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...watch the remnants of their ftote. CCL1X. While by the motion of the flames they guefc What ftreets are burning now, and what are near, An infant waking to the paps would prefs, And meets, inftead of milk, a falling tear. CCLI. No thought can eafe them but their fovereign'i... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 842 pages
...watch the remnants of their ftoic. CCfcix. While by the motion of the flames they guefs Whit dreets arc burning now, and what are near, An infant waking to the paps would prefs, And meets, inftead of milk, a falling tear. ecu. No thought can eafe them but their fovereign'i... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 658 pages
...watch the remnants of their ilo.c. CCLIX. While by the motion of the flames they jrm-fs What ftreets are burning now, and what are near, An infant waking to the paps would prefc, And meets,' intUad of milk, a falling tear. CCLX. io thought can eafe them but their fovereign's... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...while thro' burning labyrinths they retire, With loathing eyes repeat what they would shun. CCLVIiI. The most in fields, like herded beasts, lie down, To dews obnoxious, on the grassy floor; i0 jo And while their babes in sleep their sorrows drown, • Sad parents watch the remnants of their... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...fields, like herded beasts, lie clown, To dews obnoxious, on the grassy floor ; And, while their babes iu sleep their sorrows drown, Sad parents watch the remnants...they guess What streets are burning now, and what arc near, An iutant, waking, to the paps would press, And meets, instead of milk, a falling tear. No... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...while through burning lab'rinths they retire, With loathing eyes repeat what they would shun. 258. The most in fields, like herded beasts, lie down,...drown, Sad parents watch the remnants of their store. • Note XLIX. t Note L. 259While by the motion of the flames they guess What streets are burning now,... | |
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While by the motion of the flames they guess What streets are burning now, and what are near, An infant, waking, to the paps would press And meets instead of milk a falling tear. 260 No thought can ease them but their Sovereign's care. Whose praise the... 
