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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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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...for all. Grant that the powerful still the weak control; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole: 50 Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows, And helps, another creature's wants and wots. Say, will the falcon, stooping from ahove, Srnit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...one for all. Grant that the powerful still the weak control, Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps,...when Philomela sings ? — Man cares for all : to hirds he gives his woods, To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods ; For some his interest prompts...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...control ; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows, And helpe, another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon,...varying plumage, spare the dove ? Admires the jay the insects gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? Man cares for all : to birds he gives...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

1808 - 408 pages
...another creature's want« and woes, S;iy «ill Ilic falcon, stooping from above, Smit with lier vary ing plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or bears the hawk when Philomela ling» ? Man carea for all : tu birds he giro his woods, To beasts hi«...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Tyrant of the whole : Nature that Tyrant checks ; he only knows, Aud helps another creature's wants anil d, of armies over-run, And mighty kingdoms bv your conduct won : How, whife you thunder d, ()r hears the nawk when Philomela sings? Man cares foi all : to birds he gives his woods, To beasts...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...for all. Grant that the powerful still the weak control; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : ill Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps,...birds he gives his woods, To beasts his pastures, anil to fish his floods: For some his interest prompts him to provide, For more his pleasure, yet for...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...for all. Grant that the pow'rful still the weak control ; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole ; Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps...varying plumage, spare the dove ' Admires the jay, the insects gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? Man cares for all : to birds he gives...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...for all Grant that the powerful still the weak control; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole: 50 Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps, another creature's wants and woes, Say, will the fali;on, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dotet Admires the jay the insect's...
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton ...

William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...perfecj;. Grant that the powerful still the weak controul, Be Man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows And helps...the hawk when Philomela sings ? Man cares for all, 8$c. For some his interest prompts him to provide, For more his pleasure, yet for more his pride. This...
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord ..., Volume 11

William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 pages
...and perfect. Grant that the powerful still the weak controul, Be Man the wit and tyrant of the whole: Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows And helps...the hawk when Philomela sings ? Man cares for all, £$c.For some his interest prompts him to provide, For more his pleasure, yet for more his pride. This...
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