 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 470 pages
...smiles. And art thou still a glutton of bright gold.' And art thou still rapacious of thy ruin ? 101* Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow; A blow...it executes, alarms, And startles thousands with a signal fall. As when some stately growth of oak, or pine, Which nods aloft, and proudly spreads her... | |
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...smiles. And art thou still a glutton of bright gold? And art thou still rapacious of thy ruin? 1010 Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow ; A blow,...executes, alarms; And startles thousands with a single fall. As when some stately growth of oak, or pine, Which nods aloft, and proudly spreads her shade,... | |
 | Edward Young - English literature - 1802 - 402 pages
...fortune's smiles. And art thou still a glutton, of bright gold? And art thou still rapacious of thy ruin ? Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow; A blow,...executes, alarms; And startles thousands with a single fall. As when some stately growth of oak, or pine, Which nods aloft, and proudly spreads her shade,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...their store. And art thou still a glutton of bright gold ? And art thou still rapacious of thy ruin? Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow; A blow,...executes, alarms; And startles thousands with a single fall. As when some stately growth of oak, or pine, Which nods aloft, and proudly spreads her shade,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 pages
...fortune's smiles. And art thou still a glutton of bright gold ? And art thou still rapacious of thy ruin? Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow ; A blow,...executes, alarms ; And startles thousands with a single fall. As when some stately growth of oak, or pine, Which nods aloft, and proudly spreads her shade,... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1802 - 412 pages
...fortune's smiles. And art thoii still a glutton of bright gold ? And art thou still rapacious of thy ruin ? Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow ; A blow,...executes, alarms ; And startles thousands with a single fall. As when some stately growth of oak, or pirie, Which nods aloft, and proudly spreads her shade,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 284 pages
...fortune's smiles. And art thou still a glutton of bright gold ? And art thou still rapacious of thy ruin ? Death loves a shining mark, a- signal blow; A blow,...executes, alarms; And startles thousands with a single fall. As when some stately growth of oak, or pine, Which nods aloft, and proudly spreads her shade,... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 238 pages
...Fortune's smiles. And art thou still a glutton of bright gold ? And art thou still rapacious of thy ruin ? Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow ; A blow...executes, alarms, And startles thousands with a single fall. As when some stately growth of oak, or pine, Which nods aloft, and proudly spreads her shade,... | |
 | Edward Young, Thomas Park - 1808 - 336 pages
...Fortune's smiles. And ait thou still a glutton of bright gold? And art thou still rapacious of thy ruin ? Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow , A blow...it executes, alarms, And startles thousands with a signal fall. As when some stately growth of oak, or pine, Which nods aloft and proudly spreads her... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...Forht.nc's smiles. And art thou still a glutton of bright gold * And art thou still rapacious of thy ruin ? Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow; A blow,...executes, alarms; And startles thousands with a single fall. Aíí when some stately growth of oak, or pine, Which nods aloft, and proudly spreads her sbade,... | |
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow; A blow, which, while it executes, alarms; And startles thousands with a single fall. 
