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