 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
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pagina’s
...list'ning throng addrest. " 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 pagina’s
...our 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 through the soil, To sweat in harness through the... | |
 | John Gay - 1826 - 376 pagina’s
...our sires have borne the chain t 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 plough-share through the soil, To sweat in harness through the... | |
 | Epictetus, Samuel Croxall, John Gay, William Cowper, Alexander Pope, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, James Merrick, Charles Denis, John Tapner - 1832 - 366 pagina’s
...chain ? Consider, friends, your strength and might ; 'Tis conquest to assert your right. How cumb 'roua is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we design 'd for daily toil, To drag the ploughshare through the soil ; To sweat in harness through the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 pagina’s
...our sires have borne the chain ? Consider, friends, your strength and might, 'T is 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 ploughshare through the soil ; To sweat in harness through the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 pagina’s
...our sires have borne the chain ? Consider; friends, your strength and might, 'T is 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 ploughshare through the soil ; To sweat in harness through the... | |
 | John Gay - 1838 - 254 pagina’s
...the chain ? 'Consider, friends! your strength and might, Tis conquest to assert your right. 10 15 ' 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 ? 20 ' To sweat in harness through... | |
 | John Gay - 1840 - 170 pagina’s
...have borne the chain ? ' Consider, friends, your strength and might ; ' Tis conquest to assert our 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 I 61 ' To sweat in harness through... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 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 ploughshare through the soil, To sweat in harness through the... | |
 | John Gay - 1842 - 236 pagina’s
...our 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 through the soil, To sweat in harness through the... | |
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