 | Gibson Craig - 1879 - 320 ページ
...call luck, and which we believe is the hand of God in history, England would have then exhibited " How nations sink, by darling schemes oppress'd When vengeance listens to the fool's request ;" but it was not to be, and to a religious Act — " one of the worst Acts of one of the worst governments... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 ページ
...delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good ; 10 How rarely Reason guides the stubborn choice, Hules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant voice ; How nations sink, by darling scheme» oppress' d, When vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 ページ
...by vent'rous pride, To chase the dreary paths, without a guide, As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good ;...oppress'd, When vengeance listens to the fool's request. ****** Where then shall Hop'e and Fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 ページ
...something." ' — Boswell's Life of Johnson, ii. 128. Even when man does choose, he rarely chooses wisely. ' How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Rules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant voice.' The Vanity of Human Wishes, I. II. P. 80, 1. 5. Very few . . . Johnson, writing to Boswell about the... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1889 - 442 ページ
...good ; 10 How rarely reason gnides the stnbborn choice, Rnles the bold hand, or prompts the snppliant voice ;— — How nations sink, by darling schemes oppress'd, When Vengeance listens to the fool's reqnest. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, 15 Each gift of natnre and each grace of art... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1892 - 480 ページ
...betray'd by vent'rous pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide, As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good ;...suppliant voice ; How nations sink, by darling schemes oppressM, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart,... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 ページ
...Goethe. How quickly Nature falls into revolt / When gold becomes her object 1 з Hen* //7., iv. 4. SO ere joy for X4 , Johnson. How ready some people are to admire in a great man the exception rather than the rule of his... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 478 ページ
...without a guide, As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good ; 10 \How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice. Rules...Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, 15 Each gift of nature and each grace of art ; With fatal heat impetuous... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 448 ページ
...betrayed by venturous pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide, As treacherous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good; How...suppliant voice; How nations sink, by darling schemes oppressed, When vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with every wish the afflictive... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 644 ページ
...betrayed by venturous pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide, As treacherous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good; How...suppliant voice; How nations sink, by darling schemes oppressed, When vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with every wish the afflictive... | |
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Each gift of nature, and each grace of art; With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows; Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath, And restless fire precipitates on death. 
