Me wrangling courts, and stubborn law, To smoke, and crowds, and cities draw: There selfish faction rules the day, And pride and avarice throng the way; Diseases taint the murky air, And midnight conflagrations glare; Loose Revelry, and Riot bold, In... Arliss's Literary collections - Página 177de John Arliss - 1825 - 358 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Kieran Dolin - 2007 - 26 páginas
...urban nightmare ahead: Me wrangling courts, and stubborn law, To smoke, and crowds, and cities draw: There selfish faction rules the day, And pride and avarice throng the way.44 This poem is often cited as evidence that law and literature had become strangers to each other.... | |
| 1825 - 938 páginas
...a last adien ! E 2 The wrangling courts, and stubborn law, To smoke, and crowds, and cities draw ; There selfish faction rules the day And pride and...riot bold In frighted streets their orgies hold ; Or when in silence all is drown'd, Fell murder walks her lonely round ; No room for peace, no room for... | |
| 1808 - 262 páginas
...conflagrations glare. ' Loofe revelry and riot bold In frighted ftreets their orgies hold ; Or where in filence all is drown'd, Fell murder walks his nightly round. No room for peace — no room for you — Adieu, celeftial Nymph ! adieu. 7 f Shakefpeare, no more thy fylvan fon, Nor all the art of Addifon,... | |
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