... mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good. How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Rules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant voice, How nations sink, by darling schemes oppress'd, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request.... The British Critic - Page 2301795Full view - About this book
| Collection - 1755 - 378 pages
...darling fchemes opprefs'4, When vengeance liftens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry wifh th' affliftive dart, Each gift of nature, and each...With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows, Impeachment flops the fpeaker's pow'rful breath, And reftlefs fire precipitates... | |
| Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 pages
...darling fchemes opprefs'd, When vengeance liflens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry wifh th' affliftive dart, Each gift of nature, and each...grace of art, With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, i With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows, Impeachment flops the fpeaker's pow'rful breafh, And reftlefs... | |
| Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...darling fchemes opprefs'd, When vengeance liftens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry wifh th' affliftive dart. Each gift of nature, and each...grace of art, With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, '.; 'i With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows, Impeachment flops the fpeaker's pow'rful breath, And reftlefs... | |
| Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 412 pages
...opprefs'd, When vengeance liftens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with every wifh th' afflictive dart, Each, gift of nature, and each grace of art,...With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows, Impeachment flops the fpeaker's pow'rful breath, And reftlefs fire precipitates... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 pages
...opprefs'd, When Vengeance liftens to the Fool's Requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry Wifh th' afflictive Dart, Each Gift of Nature, and each Grace of Art,...With fatal Heat impetuous Courage glows, With fatal Sweetnjfs Elocution flows, Impeachment ftops the Speaker's pow'rful Breath, And reftlefs Fire precipitates... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pages
...opprefs'd, When Vengeance liftens to the Fool's Requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry Wifli th' afflictive Dart, Each Gift of Nature, and each Grace of Art, With fatal Heat impetuous Courage glows, . ,. i With fatal Sweetnsfs Elocution flows, - .. ic;i"' Impeachment flops the Speaker's ppw'rful Breath,... | |
| 1781 - 512 pages
...opprefs'd, When vengeance liflens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry wifh th' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art ;...With fatal heat impetuous courage glows. With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows ; Impeachment ftops the fpeaker's pow'rful h/eath, And reftlefs fire precipitates... | |
| Robert Dodsley - 1782 - 410 pages
...prompts the fuppliant voice ; How nations fink, by darling fchemes opprefs'd, When vengeance liftens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with every with...With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows ; Impeachment flops the fpeaker's pow'rful breath, And reftlefs fire precipitates... | |
| 1782 - 500 pages
...fchemes opprefs'd, When vengeance liftens to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with every wifh th' affli&ive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art;...With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows ; Impeachment flops the fpeaker's pow'rful breath, And reftlefs fire precipitates... | |
| Decimus Junius Juvenalis - 1784 - 446 pages
...fchemes oppreis'd, When vengeance linen* to the fool's requeft. Fate wings with every wilh th' afHiftive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art ;...With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal fweetnefs elocution flows i But, fcarce obferv'd, the knowing and the bold, Fall in the gen'ral maffacre... | |
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