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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 British poets, including translations, Volume 41

British poets - 1822 - 276 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,...spare the dove ? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings1'. Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ?— O Man cares for all: to birds he gives his woods,...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...for all. 4. 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, tne insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? 5. Man cares for all: to birds he...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...Men in the exercise of that Tyranny over their fellow-creatures, consequent on such a principle. W. Nature that Tyrant checks ; He only knows, And helps,...falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage,"spare the dove ? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings ? 55 Or hears the hawk when Philomela...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...for all. 8 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,...gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? 9 Man cares for all: to birds he gives his woods, To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods; For...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...for all, Grant that the powerful still the weak controul ; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : stead of rage Deliberate valour breath'd,firm and...With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Angu insects gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? Man cares for all : to birds he gives...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...As far as Goose could judge, he reason'd right; But as to Man, mistook the matter quite. Warburton. Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps,...above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove ? COMMENTARY. •single : for his reason hath endowed him both with power and address sufficient to...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...for all. Grant that the pow'rful still the weak control, Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : SO Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps,...above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove ? Admiree the jay the insect's gilded wings ? 55 J)r hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? Man cares...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...As far as Goose could judge, he reason'd right; But as to Man, mistook the matter quite. Warburton. Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps,...above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove ? COMMENTARY. single : for his reason hath endowed him both with power and address sufficient to make...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...the whole : JJature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps another creature's wants wod woeg. Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove ? Admires the jay, the insect's gilded wings ? , v Or hears the hawk when Plr'omela sings? 5. Man cares for all ; to hirds he gives his wood?, To...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 pages
...control, Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : 50 S'aturc that tyrant checks ; he only knows, \nd helps, another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, T mil with her varying plumage, spare the dove .' Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings ? 65 Or...
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