 | William Butler - 1795 - 242 pages
...late refpectable Mr. Day, in the fubfe-- <^uent nervous lines. The favour'd clime, the foft domeflic air, And wealth and eafe, were all below their care...every bleffing of the ikies. % For not the winding fbeam, or painted vale, The fweets of fummer, or the vernal gale, Were fcrm'd to fetter down the noble... | |
 | William Butler - Arithmetic - 1811 - 548 pages
...refpeftable Mr. Day *, in the fubfequent nervous lines : The favour'd clime, the foft domeflicair, And wealth and eafe, were all below their care; Since...bleffing of the Ikies. For not the winding ftream, or paintc-d vale, The fweets of funimer, or the vernal gale, Were fbrm'd to fetter down the noble foul... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 412 pages
...weeping wooed them to her well-known arms. The favoured clime, the soft domestic air, And wealth and ease were all below their care, Since there an hated tyrant met their eyes And blasted every blessing of the skies. And now, no more by nature's bounds confined He* spreads his dragon... | |
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Were fcrm'd to fetter down the noble foul Beneath the magic of their foft controul. Wherever nature bids her treafures rife, . Or circling planets rufh along the Ikies, Or ocean rolls his ever-ebbing wave, Has fate... 