 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...the great : Ye powers of truth ! that bid my soul aspire, Far from my bosom drive the low desire ! And thou, fair Freedom ! taught alike to feel The...tyrant's angry steel ; Thou transitory flower ' alike vmdone By proud Contempt, or Favour's fostering sun, Still may thy blooms the changeful clime endure,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...the great: ' ' Ye pow'rs of truth, that bid my soul aspire, Far from my bosom drive the low desire ! And thou, fair Freedom, taught alike to feel The rabble's rage, and tyrant's angry steel; Thou transitory flow'r, alike undone By proud contempt, or favour's fost'ring sun; Still may thy blooms the changeful... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...court the great ; Ye powers of truth, that bid my soul aspire, Far from my bosom drive the low desire ; And thou, fair Freedom, taught alike to feel The rabble's rage, and tyrant's angry iteel ; Thou transitory flower, alike undone By proud contempt, or favour's fostering sun, Still may... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...wrote for fame, One sink of level avarice shall lie, And scholars, soldiers, kings unhonour'd die. And thou, fair Freedom, taught alike to feel The rabble's...For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those that toil; And all that Freedom's highest aims can reach Is but to lay... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...court the great: Ye powers of truth, that bid my soul aspire, Far from my bosom drive the low desire ! And thou, fair Freedom, taught alike to feel The rabble's...For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those that toil; And all that Freedom's highest aims can reach Is but to lay... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...my soul aspire, Var from my bosom drive the low desire ! And thou, fair freedom, taught alike to feW The rabble's rage, and tyrant's angry steel ; Thou...clime endure ! I only would repress them to secure : Fur just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think, must govern those that toil ; And... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...court the great; Ye powers of truth, that bid my soul aspire, Far from my bosom drive the low desire ; d place ; His time a moment, and a point his space....completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. Heaven who think must govern those that toil ; And all that freedom's highest aims can reach, Is but to lay... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...to feel The rabble's rage, and tyrants' angry steel ; Thou transitory flower, alike undone By uroud contempt, or favour's fostering sun : Still may thy...For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those that toil ( And all that Freedom's highest aims can reach. Is but to lay... | |
 | Esq. Hugh Campbell - Christian poetry, English - 1825 - 184 pages
...: — And them! fair Freedom, oftener forced to fed The rabble's rage, than angry tyrant's steel ! Still may thy blooms the changeful clime endure, I...For just experience tells in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil ! Blind must they be to all that truth requires, Who call {or... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...great ; Ye powers of truth, that bid my soul aspire, Far from my bosom drive the low desire ! And thon, C eontempt, or favour's fostering sun : Still may thy blooms the ehangeful elime endure ; I only would... | |
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Yet think not, thus when Freedom's ills I state, I mean to flatter kings, or court the great; Ye powers of truth that bid my soul aspire, Far from my bosom drive the low desire; And... 
