| 1860 - 378 pages
...build 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 !" In the year 1820 or 1821, whilst certain repairs were being made in the apartment above the Antrim... | |
| Wilson Flagg - 1861 - 446 pages
...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... | |
| Lays - 1862 - 406 pages
...Ambition ? Oh, no ! Affrighted he sh rinketh away ; For, see ! they would pin him below, In a small narrow cave and begirt with cold clay, To the meanest...— she forgets The charms which she wielded before — Kor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pages
...to Ambition t 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 1 ah ! no ; she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - 420 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 I ah ! no ; she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets... | |
| Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 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...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... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1867 - 548 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...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... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...Ambition ? oh, no ! Affrighted, he shrinketh away ; For sec ! 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. 10 To Beauty ? ah, no ! — she forgets The charms which she wielded before — Nor knows the foul... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 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 nmoothness it held or the tint which it wore. Shall we... | |
| 1870 - 464 pages
...to Ambition ? oh, 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. 10 To Beauty ? ah, no ! — she forgets The charms which she wielded before — Nor knows the foul... | |
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