Eighteenth-century PoetryPatricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks Prentice-Hall, 1964 - 451 pages |
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Page 121
... king , is to be good and just ; His people he protects , their rights he saves , And scorns to rule a wretched race of slaves . Happy , thrice happy shall the monarch reign , Where guardian laws despotic power restrain ! There shall the ...
... king , is to be good and just ; His people he protects , their rights he saves , And scorns to rule a wretched race of slaves . Happy , thrice happy shall the monarch reign , Where guardian laws despotic power restrain ! There shall the ...
Page 247
... king your shield . We the reins to slaughter give , Ours to kill , and ours to spare : Spite of danger he shall live . ( Weave the crimson web of war . ) They , whom once the desert - beach Pent within its bleak domain , Soon their ...
... king your shield . We the reins to slaughter give , Ours to kill , and ours to spare : Spite of danger he shall live . ( Weave the crimson web of war . ) They , whom once the desert - beach Pent within its bleak domain , Soon their ...
Page 365
... king . King was a name too proud for man to wear With modesty and meekness ; and the crown , So dazzling in their eyes who set it on , Was sure t ' intoxicate the brows it bound . It is the abject property of most , That , being parcel ...
... king . King was a name too proud for man to wear With modesty and meekness ; and the crown , So dazzling in their eyes who set it on , Was sure t ' intoxicate the brows it bound . It is the abject property of most , That , being parcel ...
Contents
Introduction | xvii |
Matthew Prior | xxiv |
To the Honorable Charles Montague Esq | 2 |
Copyright | |
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