A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct ... - Page 257by Bernard Burke - 1866 - 636 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 pages
...intrinsically valuable, should have beA soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, and passion, and all pride; The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts thy retreat is made ; The muse attends thec to thy silent shade... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...thy fall. JO And sure if aught helow the seats divine Can touch immortals, 'tis a soul like thine; A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of pow'r, the blast of public breath, 85 The lust of lucre, and the... | |
| Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pages
...adulatory line* of the immortal Pope no less verify the last : A soul supreme, in each hard instance try'd, Above all pain, all anger, and all pride ; 'The rage...the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dvead of death. We presume thereforej that we shall be justified in recommending to the reader... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...'tis a soul like thine : A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried. Above all pain, and passion, and all pride. The rage of power, the blast of public breath. The lust of lncre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts thy retreat is made ; The muse attends thee to thy... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...year 17»«. And sure if aught below the seats divine Can touch immortals, 'tis a soul like thine ; A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread... | |
| Arthur Aikin - 1809 - 832 pages
...in his nobl« 21-' lines, dedicating Parnell's poems to this earl, celebrates him as possessing « A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above...the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death." « He died 1724, set. 64. He was the rival of Bolingbroke, who has painted him... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...seats divine Can touch immortals, 'tis a soul like thine: A soul supreme, in each hard instance try'd, Above all pain, all anger, and all pride; The rage...the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts th" retreat is made; The Muse attends thee to thy silent shade:... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...immortals, 'tis a soul like thine: A soul supreme, in each hard instance try'd, Above all pain, all nir.er, and all pride; The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts thy retreat is made; The Muse attends thee to thy silent shade:... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...immortals, 'tis a soul like thine: A soul supreme, in each hard instance try'd, Above all pain, all an;er, and all pride; The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts thy retreat is made; The Muse attends thee to thy silent shade:... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...thine: A «oui supreme, in each hard instance try'd, 'bore all pain, all air-er, and all pride; The race of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. lu vain to deserts thy retreat is made; The Muse attends thce to thy silent shade:... | |
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