 | John Almon - 1786 - 328 pagina’s
...crowning good, repreffing ill ; Smit by her facred frown, The fiend Diferetioa like a vapour finks, And e'en the all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding fbrinks. Such was this heav'n-lov'd ifle, Than Lefbos fairer and the Cretan fhore ! No more fliall... | |
 | John Bell - 1794 - 574 pagina’s
...Empress, crowning good, repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such 'was this heav'n-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No more shall Freedom smile ? Shall Britons... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pagina’s
...crowning good, repreffing ill ; Smit by her facred frown, The fiend OPPRESSION, like a vapour finks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding fbrinks. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. . rrH E curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1808 - 142 pagina’s
...empress, crowning good, repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred frown The fiend, Discretion, like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks ; Such was this heaven-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No more shall Freedom smile ? Shall Britons... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1808 - 526 pagina’s
...Empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sim't by her sacred frown, The fiend oppression, like a tapour sinks. And e'en- the all-dazzling crown Hides his...rays, and at her bidding shrinks, — Such was this heaven-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore I No more shall freedom smile ? Shall Britons... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 pagina’s
...repressing ill : Smit by her sacred frown The fiend, Discretion, like a vapour sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heav'n lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No more shall freedom smile ? Shall Britons... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pagina’s
...empress, crowning good, repressing ill : Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion * like a vapour sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heaven-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No more shall freedom smile ? Shall Britons... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pagina’s
...good, repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred frown The fiend Discretion like a vapour sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heav'n-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No more shall Freedom smile ? Shall Britons... | |
 | 1826 - 310 pagina’s
...repressing ill ; I Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend, Discretion, like a vapour sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heaven-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No more shall Freedom smile ? Shall Britons... | |
 | 1827 - 552 pagina’s
...globes elate, Sits Empress — crowning good, repressing ill : Smit by her sacred frown, The fi 'nd, Discretion, like a vapor, sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling...Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.'' But this vision is past. While the teachers of Laybach give the rule, there will be no law but the... | |
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O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. 
