 Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient Rights in vain But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak. Nature, that hateth emptiness, Allows of penetration less, And therefore must make room Where greater spirits come.  A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen - Page 37by George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...another mould ! Though j ustice against fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain — But od verses to one of your taste ; You've got au odd...sicken'd over by learning; At least, it's your temper, shews what part He had of wiser art : Wh«e, twining subtle fears with hope, He wove a net of such... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...another mould ! Though justiee against fate eomplain, And plead the aneient rights in vain — But an's the noblest work of God. Fame but from death a eome. What field of all the eivil war, Where his were not the deepest sear ? And Hampton shews what... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1833 - 764 pages
...FROM IRELAND. • * * Though justice against fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain : But those do hold or break, As men are strong or weak. Nature, that hatcth emptiness, Allows of penetration less ; And therefore must make room Where greater spirits come.... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...IRELAND. * • • Though j ustice against fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain : But those do hold or break, As men are strong or weak....what part He had of wiser art : When twining subtle fears with hope, He wove a net of such a scope, That Charles himself might chace To Carisbrook's narrow... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pages
...Oliver Cromwell :— " Though justice against fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain : But those do hold or break, As men are strong or weak....what part He had of wiser art : When twining subtle (ears with hope, He wove a net of such a scope, That Charles himself might rhace To Carisbrook's narrow... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...Cromwell :— " Though justico against fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain : líut those do hold or break, As men are strong or weak. Nature, ib. п hateth emptiness, Л lim-.- ol penetration less ; And therefore must make room Where greater... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 550 pages
...history of the period, in his ode on the return of Cromwell from Ireland, has the following lines : — And Hampton shows what part He had of wiser art, When, twining subtle fears with hope, He wove a net of such a scope, That Charles himself might chase, To Carisbrook's narrow... | |
 | Literature - 1841 - 500 pages
...that ill-advised measure, have been variously related by our historians. It is, however, agreed on all And Hampton shows what part He had of wiser art, When, twining subtle frars with hope, He wove a net of such a scope, To Carisbrook's narrow case. That Charles himself might... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...another mould ! Though justice against fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain — But those do hold or break, As men are strong or weak. Nature, that hnteth emptiness, Allows of penetration less, And therefore must make room Where greater spirits come.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 326 pages
...ANDREW MARVELL. Though justice against fate complain. And plead the ancient rights in vain — But those do hold or break, As men are strong or weak....the civil war, Where his were not the deepest scar 1 And Hampton shows what part He had of wiser art ; Where, twining subtle fears with hope, He wove... | |
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