O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate ; Where wav'ring man, betray'd by vent'rous pride To tread the dreary paths, without a guide, As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good... The British Critic - Page 2301795Full view - About this book
| Collection - 1755 - 378 pages
...the bufy fcenes of crouded life; Then fay how hope and fear, defire and hate, O'erfpread with fnares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav'ring man, betray'd...guides the ftubborn choice, Rules the bold hand, or promps the fuppliant voice, How * Ver. I. 11. i i How nations fink, by darling fchemes opprefs'4, When... | |
| Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 412 pages
...the bufy fcenes of crowded life ; Then fay how hope and fear, defire and hate, O'erfpread with fnares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav'ring man, betray'd...vent'rous pride, To tread the dreary paths without a guide j . » Ver. i — Mi As As treach'rous phantoms in the mift delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chafes airy... | |
| Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...the bufy fcenes of crowded life ; Then fay how hope and fear, defire and hate, O'erfpread with fnares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav'ring man, betray'd...vent'rous pride, To tread the dreary paths without a guide ; « Ver. i — ii. As As treach'rous phantoms in the mift delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chafes airy... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pages
...bufy Scenes of crowded Life ; Then fay rlow Hope and Fear, Defire and Hate, O'erfpread with Snares the clouded Maze of Fate, Where wav'ring Man, betray'd...Pride, To tread the dreary Paths without a Guide, As threach'rous Phantoms in theMift delude, Shuns fancied Ills, or chafes airy Good. How rarely Reafon... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pages
...Fear, Defire and Hate, O'erfpread with Snares the clouded Maze of Fate, Where wav'ring Man, bctray'd by vent'rous Pride, To tread the dreary Paths without a Guide, As threacVrous Phantoms in theMift delude, Shuns t.ncied Ills, or phafes airy Good. How rarely Reafon... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 pages
...Fear, Defire and Hate, O'erfpread with Snares the clouded Maze of Fate, Where wav'ring Man, betray 'd by vent'rous Pride, To tread the dreary Paths without a Guide, As t'hreach'rous Phantoms in theMift delude, Shuns fancied Ills, or chafes airy Good. How rarely Reafon... | |
| 1781 - 512 pages
...oppofcd to them here. Then Fhen Then fay how Hope and Fear, Defire and Hate, O'erfpread with fnares the clouded maze of Fate, Where wav'ring man, betray'd...As treach'rous phantoms in the mift delude, Shuns fancy'd ills, or chafes airy good. How rarely reafon guides the ftubborn choice, Rules the bold hand,... | |
| Decimus Junius Juvenalis - 1784 - 446 pages
...the bufy fcenes of crowded life; Then fay how hope and fear, deure and hate, O'erfpread with fnares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav'ring man, betray'd...paths without a guide ; As treach'rous phantoms in the mill delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chafes airy good ; How rarely reafon guides the llubborn choice,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...the bufy fcenes of crowded life ; Then fay how hope and fear, defire and hate, O'crfpread with fnares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav'ring man, betray'd...pride, To tread the dreary paths without a guide; As trcach'rous phantoms in the mift delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chafes airy good. How rarely reafon... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...bufy fcenes of crowded life -, Then fay how hope and fear, defire and hate, O'erfpread with fnares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav'ring man, betray'd...vent'rous pride, To tread the dreary paths without a guide j As treach'rous phantoms in the mift delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chafes airy good. How rarely reafon... | |
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