 | English poetry - 1843 - 368 pages
...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 - 1844 - 746 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...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 - 458 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 - 768 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;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 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 estrang'd, would bleed To work the wo of any living thing, By trap or net, by arrow, or by sliug... | |
 | James Beattie, George Gilfillan - Beattie, James, 1735-1803 - 1854 - 318 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 - 1854 - 332 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... | |
 | Devotional literature, English - 1855 - 488 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 - 462 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... | |
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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. 
