 | English poetry - 1843
...dexterity, or speed, To him nor vanity nor joy could bring. His heart, from cruel sport estranged, wowld bleed To work the wo of any living thing. By trap or net, by arrow or by sling, These he detested, those he scorn'd to wield. He wish'd to be the guardian, not the king, Tyrant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1844
...Shot from the western cliff, released the weary team. The exploit of strength, dexterity, or speed, ejudice and clamour, which choke the channels through which t sport estranged, would bleed To work the wo of any living thing, By trap or net, by arrow or by sling... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1844
...Shot from the western cliff, released the weary team. The exploit of strength, dexterity, or speed, ambers sport estranged, would bleed To work the wo of any living thing, By trap or net, by arrow or by sling... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 448 pages
...Shot from the western cliff, released the weary team. Th' exploit of strength, dexterity, or speed, To him nor vanity nor joy could bring. His heart, from cruel sport estranged, would bleed To work the wo of any living thing, By trap, or net ; by arrow, or by... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 746 pages
...Shot from the western cliff, released the weary team. Th' exploit of strength, dexterity, or speed, To him nor vanity nor joy could bring. His heart, from cruel sport estranged, would bleed To work the woe of any living thing, By trap or net, by arrow, or by sling;... | |
 | James Beattie, Robert Blair, William Falconer - 1854 - 298 pages
...Shot from the western cliff, released the weary team. 18 The exploit of strength, dexterity, or speed, To him nor vanity nor joy could bring. His heart, from cruel sport estranged, would bleed To work the woe of any living thing, By trap, or net ; by arrow, or by... | |
 | James Beattie, Robert Blair, William Falconer - 1854 - 298 pages
...Shot from the western cliff, released the weary team. 18 The exploit of strength, dexterity, or speed, To him nor vanity nor joy could bring. His heart, from cruel sport estranged, would bleed To work the woe of any living thing, By trap, or net ; by arrow, or by... | |
 | James Montgomery - Devotional literature, English - 1855 - 466 pages
...pain, can never be such as a worthy mind can delight in. Th' exploit of strength, dexterity, or speed, To him nor vanity nor joy could bring, His heart from cruel sport estranged, would bleed To work the woe of any living thing. In weighing any commodity, its weight... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 444 pages
...Shot from the western cliff, released the weary team. Th' exploit of strength, dexterity, or speed, To him nor vanity nor joy could bring. His heart, from cruel sport estranged, would bleed To work the wo of any living thing, By trap, or net ; by arrow, or by... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 785 pages
...dexterity, or speed, To him nor vanity nor joy could bring; His heart, from cruel sport estrang'd, would bleed To work the wo of any living thing, By trap or net, by arrow, or by sling ; These he detested, those he scorn'd to wield; He wish'd to be the guardian, not the king, Tyrant... | |
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He wish'd to be the guardian, not the king, Tyrant far less, or traitor of the field, And sure the sylvan reign unbloody joy might yield. 
