Silver Poets of the Eighteenth CenturyArthur Pollard |
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Page 48
... Land , How could unguarded Virtue stand ? ' With Horror , Grief , Despair the Dean Beheld the dire destructive Scene : His Friends in Exile , or the Tower , Himself within the Frown of Power ; Pursu'd by base envenom'd Pens , Far to the ...
... Land , How could unguarded Virtue stand ? ' With Horror , Grief , Despair the Dean Beheld the dire destructive Scene : His Friends in Exile , or the Tower , Himself within the Frown of Power ; Pursu'd by base envenom'd Pens , Far to the ...
Page 136
... land . Ill fares the land , to hastening ills a prey , Where wealth accumulates , and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish , or may fade ; A breath can make them , as a breath has made , But a bold peasantry , their country's ...
... land . Ill fares the land , to hastening ills a prey , Where wealth accumulates , and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish , or may fade ; A breath can make them , as a breath has made , But a bold peasantry , their country's ...
Page 141
... land , by luxury betrayed , In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed , But verging to decline , its splendours rise , Its vistas strike , its palaces surprize ; While scourged by famine from the smiling land , The mournful peasant ...
... land , by luxury betrayed , In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed , But verging to decline , its splendours rise , Its vistas strike , its palaces surprize ; While scourged by famine from the smiling land , The mournful peasant ...
Contents
A Description of the Morning | 8 |
Horace Lib 2 Sat 6 | 28 |
A Satirical Elegy on the Death | 34 |
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