Tis conquest to assert your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we... Fables - Pagina 117door John Gay - 1793 - 256 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Complete fabulist - 1732 - 402 pagina’s
...ftrength and might ; 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right. How cumb'rous is the gilded coach ! '1 he piide of man. is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil ? To drag the. ploughfhare "thro' the foil ? To 'iweat in harnefs thro' the road ? To groan beneath the carrier's... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 330 pagina’s
...fires have borne the chain ? Confider, Friends! your ftrength and might ; 15 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right; How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The...reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-fliare through the foil, 2* To fweat in harnefs through the road, To groan beneath the carrier's... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 362 pagina’s
...tires have borne the chain ? Confider, Friends! vour ftrength and might ; 15 'Tis conqueft to alTert your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defignM for dailv toil, . To drag the plough-fliare through the foil, if To fweat in harnefs through... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 316 pagina’s
...fires have borne the chain ? Confider, Friends! your ftrength and might; 15 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The...reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-fhare through the foil, 20 To fweat in harnefs through the road, ; To groan beneath the carrier's... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pagina’s
...our fires have borne the chain ? Conlider, friends, your ftrcngth and might ! 'Tis conqueil to allert your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we dcfign'd for daily toil, To drag the ploughlhare through the foil, To fweat in harncfs through the... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pagina’s
...borne the chain > l?onfider, friends, your ftrength and might) Tis conqueft to aflcrt your right. rlow . MASON. tj" RE yet, ingenuous youth, thy fteps retire [vale, From Cam's dengn'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-mare through the foi^ To Iweat in harnefs through the road,... | |
| John Gay - 1792 - 250 pagina’s
...our fires have borne the chain ? Confidcr, friends, your Jtrength and night, 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right. • — '' How cumbrous is the gilded...of man is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toilr •> To drag the plough-mare through the foil, \ To fweat in harnefs through the road ? To groan... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pagina’s
...our fires have borne the chain ' Confider, friends, your ftrcngth and might> 'Tis conqucft to alTcrt your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The...reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-iharc through the foil, To fu cat i.: harncls through the road, To groan beneath the carrier's... | |
| John Gay - 1796 - 284 pagina’s
...our sires have borne the chain ? Consider, friends, your strength and might; 'Tis conquest to assert your right. How cumb'rous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we design'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-share through the soil, To sweat in harness through the... | |
| John Bell - 1797 - 424 pagina’s
...sires have borne the chain ? Consider, Friends ! your strength and might ; 'Tis conquest to assert your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we design'd for daily toil. To drag the ploughshare thro' the soil, , zo To sweat in harness thro' the... | |
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