 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pagina’s
...obfcures the part -. Strong were our fires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms, and dint of wit : Theirs was the giant race, before the flood ; And thus, when Charle* rctum'tl, our empire ftooii. WH, J Like Janus he the (tubborn foi! imnur'd, With rules of hufbindry... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pagina’s
...obscures the past : Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conqu'ring with force of arms, and dint of wit : Theirs was the giant race before...flood; And thus, when Charles return'd, our empire stood. Like Janus, he the stubborn soil manur'd, With rules of husbandry, the rankness cur'd : Tam'd... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pagina’s
...obscures the past : Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms, and dint of wit : Theirs was the giant race, before the flood ; And thus, when Charles returned, our empire stood. Like Janus, he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry the rankness... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pagina’s
...obscures the past : Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms, and dint of wit : Theirs was the giant race, before the flood ; And thus, when Charles returned, our empire stood. Like Janus, he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry the rankness... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 612 pagina’s
...Theirs was the giant race, before the flood : 5 And thus, when Charles return'd, our empire ftood. Like Janus he the ftubborn foil manur'd, With rules...to manners, when the ftage was rude ; And boiftrous Englifh wit with art indu'd. 10 Our age was cultivated thus at length; But what we gain'd in fkill... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 610 pagina’s
...The paucity of Strong were our fires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms, and dint of wit: Theirs was the giant race, before the flood : 5 And thus, when Charles return'd, our empire flood. Like Janus he the flubborn foil manur'd, With... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 616 pagina’s
...The paucity of Strong were our fires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms, and dint of wit: Theirs was the giant race, before the flood : 5 And thus, when Charles return'd, our empire ftood. lake Janus he the ftubborn foil manur'd, With... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pagina’s
...obscures the past : Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms, and dint of wit : Theirs was the giant race, before...flood ; And thus, when Charles return'd, our empire stood. Like Janus, he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry the rankness cured ; Tamed... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pagina’s
...obscures the past : Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms and dint of wit: Theirs was the giant race before...flood ; And thus, when Charles return'd, our empire stood. Like Janus he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry the rankness cored ; Tamed... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...obscures the past : Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms, ght the smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and stood. Like Janus he the stubborn soil manur'd, With rules of husbandry the rankness cur'd ; Tam'd... | |
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Well, then, the promised hour is come at last, The present age of wit obscures the past... 
