The Lower World: A Poem, in Four Books, with NotesWhittingham and Rowland, 1810 - 148 pagina's |
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Pagina 9
... Bulls fight with bulls , with lions lions rage ; Tho ' yon dire Snake ' , in many a mazy fold , Frantic with pain the horse and rider hold ; The bard , the painter must our homage claim , Since fiends and angels yield an equal fame ...
... Bulls fight with bulls , with lions lions rage ; Tho ' yon dire Snake ' , in many a mazy fold , Frantic with pain the horse and rider hold ; The bard , the painter must our homage claim , Since fiends and angels yield an equal fame ...
Pagina 22
... BULL- The HORSE - The Ox - the Ass - and a Variety of other abused Animals , confided to the Protection and appointed to the Service of Man.- The diversified Cruelties exercised upon each . - The high Claims of the respective Sufferers ...
... BULL- The HORSE - The Ox - the Ass - and a Variety of other abused Animals , confided to the Protection and appointed to the Service of Man.- The diversified Cruelties exercised upon each . - The high Claims of the respective Sufferers ...
Pagina 46
... these , the Steed's delights keep place , Of conquest proud , exulting in the race ; * The baited Bull is generally fastened to an iron ring in the middle of the street . That hopes and fears like thine his bosom fire , 46.
... these , the Steed's delights keep place , Of conquest proud , exulting in the race ; * The baited Bull is generally fastened to an iron ring in the middle of the street . That hopes and fears like thine his bosom fire , 46.
Pagina 47
... ' tis wholesome exercise and joy , In that ' tis dire excess , and must destroy . 14 The Bull will rage and bellow from afar , Provoke the fight , and Chanticleer will spar ; But , had they thus been form'd to close their 47.
... ' tis wholesome exercise and joy , In that ' tis dire excess , and must destroy . 14 The Bull will rage and bellow from afar , Provoke the fight , and Chanticleer will spar ; But , had they thus been form'd to close their 47.
Pagina 48
... Bull a horn of steel : As well might you insist he lov'd the fight , When the fierce Bull - dog gives the madd'ning bite ; Or that the Dog your horrid joys could share , When on the horn impall'd , or toss'd in air : As well assert yon ...
... Bull a horn of steel : As well might you insist he lov'd the fight , When the fierce Bull - dog gives the madd'ning bite ; Or that the Dog your horrid joys could share , When on the horn impall'd , or toss'd in air : As well assert yon ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 106 - If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
Pagina 125 - BEAK, and her two cubs ; but the cubs were nearly as large as the dam. They ran eagerly to the fire, and drew out from the flames part of the flesh of the sea-horse that remained unconsumed, and ate it voraciously. The crew from the ship threw...
Pagina 125 - Though she was sorely wounded, and could but just crawl to the place where they lay, she carried the lump of flesh she had fetched away, as she had done the others before, tore it in pieces, and laid it down before them : and...
Pagina 113 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
Pagina 126 - ... round them, began to lick their wounds. She went off a second time, as before, and having crawled a few paces, looked again behind her, and for some time stood moaning.
Pagina 117 - ... magnanimous, and his disposition grateful. He has been often seen to despise contemptible enemies, and pardon their insults, when it was in his power to punish them. He has been seen to spare the lives of such as were thrown to be devoured by him, to live peaceably with them, to afford them a part of his subsistence, and sometimes to want food himself rather than deprive them of that life which his generosity had spared.
Pagina 125 - They ran eagerly to the fire, and drew out from the flames part of the flesh of the sea-horse, that remained unconsumed, and ate it voraciously. The crew, from the ship, threw great lumps of the flesh of the sea-horse, which they had still left, upon the ice, which the old bear fetched away singly, laid every lump before her cubs, as she brought it, and dividing it, gave each a share, reserving but a small portion for herself.
Pagina 116 - The last bet be laid upon this cock he lost ; which so enraged him, that he had the bird tied to a spit and roasted alive before a large fire.
Pagina 106 - LORD opened the mouth of the ass; and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times? 29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me : I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee. 30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since / was thine unto this day?
Pagina 123 - Than cruelty, most devilish of them all. Mercy to him that shows it is the rule And righteous limitation of its act. By which heaven moves in pardoning guilty man; And he that shows none, being ripe in years.