 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 Seiten
...peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear' d in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, 4 5 And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 Seiten
...And peace and plenty tell a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert and a gloomy waste ; To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, 43 And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 Seiten
...And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'..! the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 Seiten
...Aml peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 Seiten
...And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claini'd the skies, dispeopled air and floodi, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 458 Seiten
...England should not be now, as — • In ages past, A dreaiy rtesart, and a gloomy waste, To sa"age beasts, and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious...some of its old customs, alias prejudices, or, in wore appropriate terms, marks of the chain of the dark ages; and Britons, whose courage and constancy... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...plains, And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Mot thus the land appcar'd iri ages past, A dreaiy prevail. And unrewarded virtue toil — to fail !...world a second chaos lie. And nature sicken to the tho Whoclaim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 Seiten
...peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns Not thus the land appear'd in ages past,. A. dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods ; The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 Seiten
...and peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, a dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, to savage beasts and savage laws...prey, and kings more furious and severe than they; who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and iloi the lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities laid... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 Seiten
...And Peace aiid Plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appearM in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
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Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they... 
