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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 English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...of the whole : Nature th;>- tyraiit checks ; he only knows, And helps anottior creature's wants and Say. will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with...his pastures, and to fish his floods ; For some his int'rest prompts him to provide, For more his pleasures, yet for more his pride. All fed on one vain...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...pamper'd goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all. Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps,...gilded wings { Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings t Man cares for all : to birds he gives his woods, To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods ;...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...all. Z.3. 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...gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings 1 6. That very life his learned hunger craves, He saves from famine, from the savage saves; Nay, feasts...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...that tyrant eheeks ; he only knows, And helps another ereature's wants and woes. Say, will the faleon, no memorial, blotted out and ras'd By their rebellion from the books of Life. Nor had th inseet's gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? M an eares for all : to birds he gives...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 268 pages
...all. / Grant that the pow'rful still the weak control ; Be man the* wit and tyrant of the whole : / Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with...pastures, and to fish his floods ; '} For some his int'rest prompts him to provide. For more his pleasures, yet for more his pride. All fed on one vain...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...1 Grant that the pow'rful still the weak control ; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole ; jVature that tyrant checks : he only knows, And helps another...gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? 3 Man cares for all : to birds he gives his woods, To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry

Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...still the weak control ; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks ; he on'y knows, And helps another creature's wants and woes....her varying plumage, spare the dove ? Admires the gay the insect's gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? 5. Man cares for all : to...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...fall, 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...and woes. Say will the falcon stooping from above, Srnit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay, the msect's gilded wings ? Or hears...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 224 pages
...provide, For more his pleasures, yet for more his pride: All feed on one vain patron, and enjoy Sniit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires...gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? 6. That very life his learned hunger craves, Th' extensive blessing; of his luxury. He saves from...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...all below and all above. See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend. Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows, And helps, another creature's wants and noes. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, span.- the dor ' Admires...
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