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" Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps, another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela... "
Flosculi cheltonienses: a selection from the Cheltenham college prize poems ... - Page 204
by Cheltenham College - 1868 - 455 pages
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Roach's Beauties of the Modern Poets of Great Britain: Carefully Selected ...

James Roach - English poetry - 1793 - 274 pages
...for all. Grant that the pow'rful flill the weak eoutruul; Be man the wit, and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps, another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the faleon, flooping from above, Smit with her vary ing plumage, fpare the dove ? Admires the jay the inftft's...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope. Gay. Pattison ...

1794 - 918 pages
...all. Grant that the powerful ail! the weak control)! ; Be man the wit and tyrant cf the whole : ¡* Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps another creature's wants and woe». Say, will the falcon, {looping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, fpirc the ¿OK Admires...
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Poems, Moral, Elegant and Pathetic: Vis. Essay on Man

1796 - 246 pages
...for all. Grant that the pow'rful ftill the weak controul: Be Man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks : he only knows, And helps,...another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, ftooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, fpare the dove ? Admires the jay the infecYs gilded...
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An essay on man. Cornish ed

Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...for all. Grant that the pow'rful still the weak controul; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks; ---he only knows, And helps...his pastures, and to fish his floods. For some his int'rest prompts him to provide, For more his pleasure, yet for more his pride : All feed on one vain...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 408 pages
...one for all. Grant that the pow'rful ftill the weak control; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole ; Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps another creature's wants and woes. Sayj will the falcon, flooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, fpare the dove ? Admires...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...controul ; Be Man the wit and tyrant of the whole : 50 Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows \nd helps another creature's wants and woes. Say, will...the dove ? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings ? 55 Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? Man cares for all : to birds he gives his woods, To beasts...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry

Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...for all. Grantth.it thepow'rfxil ftjll the weak controul ; Be Man the Wit and Tyrant of the whole: Nature that Tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps...another creature's wants and woes. Say will the falcon, (looping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, fpare the dove ! Admires the jay the infect's gilded...
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...the exercife of that Tyranny over their fellow-creatures, confequent on fuch a principle. WARBURTON. Nature that Tyrant checks ; He only knows, And helps,...another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, flooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, fpare the dove ? Admires the jay the infedYs gilded...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...the exercife of that Tyranny over their fellow-creatures, confequent on fuch a principle. WARBURTOS. Nature that Tyrant checks ; He only knows, And helps,...another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, ftooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, fpare the' dove ? Admires the jay the infecVs gilded...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...one for all. Grant that the powerful still the weak control; Be man the wit aud tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps,...stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare tlie dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ?—...
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