 | Gething - 1838 - 426 pages
...to Ambition ? Ah ! no : Affrighted he shrinketh away ; For see ! they would pin him below To a small narrow cave, and, begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To Beauty ? Ah 1 no ; she forgets The charms that she wielded before : Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin... | |
 | Frederic James Post, of Islington - 1838 - 528 pages
...Ambition ? Ah ! no ; Affrighted, he shrinketh away; For, see ! they would pin him below To a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles, a peer and a prey. To Beauty ? All ! no ; she forgets The charms that she wielded before : Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets... | |
 | 1841 - 686 pages
...to Ambition ? Oh, no ! Affrighted he shrinketh away : For see, they would pin him below In a email narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest...he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could ndore Kor the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride,... | |
 | Lyre - 1841 - 374 pages
...to Ambition ? Ah no ! Affrighted, he shrinketh away, — For see, they would pin him below In a dark narrow cave, and, begirt with cold clay, To the meanest...before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall... | |
 | Lyre - 1841 - 366 pages
...to Ambition ? Ah no ! Affrighted, he shrinketh away, — For see, they would pin him below In a dark narrow cave, and, begirt with cold clay, To the meanest...before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...build to Ambition? Ah! no: Affrighted, he shrinketh away ; For see, they would pin him below To a small narrow cave ; and, begirt with cold clay. To the meanest...a prey. To Beauty? Ah! no: she forgets The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools... | |
 | 1842 - 820 pages
...build to Ambition ? Ah, no ! AflrighteJ he shrinketh away ; For see, they would pin him below In a dark narrow cave, and, begirt with cold clay, To the meanest...before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin that, but yesterday, fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall... | |
 | 1843 - 686 pages
...Affrighted he shrinketh away ; For see, they would pin him below, In a small narrow case, and bogirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer...prey. To Beauty ? Ah, no ! she forgets The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm, that he frets The skin that but yesterday fools... | |
 | 1842 - 432 pages
...to ambition ? ah no ! Affrighted he shrinketh away ; For see, they would pin him below In a small, narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey." Envy has now ceased to carp at the desert it could not rival ; anger no longer burns ; hatred forgets... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...to Ambition ? Oh, no I Affrighted he shrinketh away: For, see, they would pin him below, In a small narrow cave, and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest...which she wielded before; Nor knows the foul worm that befrets The skins which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which... | |
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Shall we build to Ambition ? Ah no ! Affrighted, he shrinketh away, — For see, they would pin him below In a dark narrow cave, and, begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. 
