A mafter felf, that loves to domineer, And treat the monarch frankly as the flave. How doft thou light a torch to diftant deeds ? Make the paft, prefent ; and the future, frown ? How, ever and anon, awake the foul, As with a peal of thunder, to ftrange... A Tale of the Times - Page 181by Jane West - 1799Full view - About this book
| Edward Young - 1719 - 256 pages
...flave. How doft thou light a torch to diftant deeds ? Make the paft, prefentj and the future, frownt How, ever and anon, awake the foul, As with a peal of thunder, to ftrange horEors, irs . In this long reftlefs dream, which idiots hug, Nay, wife men flatter with... | |
| Edward Young - 1762 - 314 pages
...loves to domineer, And treat the monarch frankly as the flave. How doft thou light a torch to diftant deeds ? Make the paft, prefent ; and the future, frown...and anon, awake the foul, As with a peal of thunder, to ftrange horrors, In this long reftlefs dream, which idiots hug, Nay, wife men flatter with the name... | |
| John Bell - 1780 - 396 pages
...treat the monarch frankly as the (lave. How doft thou light a torch to diftant deeds ? Make the pad, prefent ; and the future frown ? How, ever and anon, awake the foul, As with a peal of thunder, to ftrange horrors, In this long reftlefs dream, which idiots hug, Nay, wife men flatter with the name... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...naked of their happinefs, In the chill blafts of winter they expire. — This is the common lot. iow, ever and anon, awake the foul, As with a peal of thunder, to ftrange horrors, n this long rcllliTs dream, which idiots hug ; Чау, wile men flatter with die... | |
| Edward Young - 1792 - 354 pages
...loves to domineer, And treat the monarch frankly as the flave. How doft thou light a torch to diftant deeds ? Make the paft, prefent ; and the future, frown...and anon, awake the foul, As with a peal of thunder, to ftrange horrors, In this long reftlefs dream, which idiots hug, Nay, wife men flatter with the name... | |
| Jane West - 1803 - 1136 pages
...tremendous power ! Who doll inhabit us without our leave;— How doft thou light a torch to diftant deeds ! Make the paft, prefent, and the future, frown...and anon, awake the foul, As with a peal of thunder ! YOUNG. THE fuppofed fecret, mentioned in my laft Chapter, was of too much importance to be confined... | |
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