Shall then our nobler jaws submit To foam and champ the galling bit? Shall haughty man my back bestride ? Shall the sharp spur provoke my side ? Forbid it Heavens ! Reject the rein ; Your shame, your infamy, disdain. Let him... Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: sein leben und seine werkedoor Theodor Wilhelm Danzel - 1850Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| John Gay - 1728 - 218 pagina’s
...reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-fhare through the foil, To fweat in harnefs through the road, To groan beneath the carrier's load? How feeble are the two-legg'd kind! What force is in our nerves combin'd! Shall then our nobler jaws fubmit To foam and... | |
| Complete fabulist - 1732 - 402 pagina’s
...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 load ? How feeble are the two-legg'd kind ! What force is in our nerves combin'd ! Shall then our nobler jaws fubmit To foam... | |
| John Gay - 1770 - 204 pagina’s
...reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-mare through the foil ; To fweat in harnefs through the road, To groan beneath the carrier's load...the two legg'd kind ! What force is in our nerves combin'd ! Shall then our nobler jaws fubmit To foam and champ the galling bit ? Shall haughty man... | |
| John Gay - 1772 - 308 pagina’s
...reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough- fhare through the foil ; To fwcat in harnefs through the road, To groan beneath the carrier's load...the two legg'd kind ! What force is in our nerves combin'd ! Shall then our nobler jaws fubmit To foam and champ the galling bit ? Shall haughty man... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 330 pagina’s
...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 load? How feeble are the two-legg'd kind ! What force is in our nerves c.ombin'fl ! Shall then our nobler jaws fubinit 45 To... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 316 pagina’s
...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 load ? How feeble are the two-legg'd kind ! What force is in our nerves combin'd ' Shall then our nobler jaws fubtnit 25 To foam... | |
| John Gay - 1792 - 250 pagina’s
...Were we defign'd for daily toilr •> To drag the plough-mare through the foil, \ To fweat in harnefs through the road ? To groan beneath the carrier's...the two legg'd kind ! What force is in our nerves combin'd ! Shall then our nobler jaws fubmit To foam and champ the galling bit ? Shall haughty man... | |
| John Gay - 1796 - 284 pagina’s
...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...groan beneath the CARRIER'S load ? How feeble are the two-legg'd kind ! What force is in our nerves combin'd ! Shall, then, our nobler jaws submit To foam... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pagina’s
...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 load ? How feeble are the two-legg'd kind ! What force is in our nerves combin'd ! Shall then our nobler jaws fubmit To foam... | |
| John Gay - 1799 - 250 pagina’s
.... Were we defigned for daily toil, To drag the plough-fhart- through the foil, To fweat in harnefs through the road, To groan beneath the carrier's load? How feeble are the two-legg'd kind! What force is in our nerves conibin'd! Shall then our nobler jaws fubmit To foam and... | |
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