 | Charlotte Smith - 1786 - 64 pages
...they feel the thorns that lurking lay To wound the wretched pilgrims of the earth ; Making thern rue the hour that gave them birth, And threw them on a...worth, And to deaf pride, misfortune pleads in vain ! Ah ! fcr thcir future fate how many fears Opprefs my heart and fillmine eyes with tears! ( 29 ) SONNET... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - Elegiac poetry, English - 1786 - 68 pages
...they feel the thorns that lurking lay To wound the \vretched pilgrims of the earth ; Making them rue the hour that gave them birth^ And threw them on a...fo full of pain, Where profperous folly treads on pntient worth, And to deaf pride, misfortune pleads in vain. Ah! - for their future fate how many fears... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - Poetry - 1789 - 144 pages
...they feel the thorns that lurking lay To wound the wretched pilgrims of the earth, Making them rue the hour that gave them birth, And threw them on a...worth, And to deaf pride, misfortune pleads in vain ! Ah ! — for their future fate how many fears Opprefs my heart— and fill mine eyes with tears !... | |
 | English literature - 1796 - 616 pages
...E'er yet they feel the thorns that, lurking, lay To wound the wretched pilgrims of the earth. Bidding them curfe the hour that gave them birth, And threw them on a world fo full of pain, Where profpcrous folly treads on patient worth, And, to deaf pride, misfortune pleads in vain. Oh ! for their... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1797 - 514 pages
...feel the thorns that, lurking, lay To wound the wretched pilgrims of the earth. Bidding them curie the hour that gave them birth, And threw them on a...misfortune pleads in vain, Oh ! for their future fate how тагу fears Opprefs my heart, and fill mine eyes with teari ! ADDRESSED TO THE GOD3 Of INDIA. YE... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 208 pages
...they feel the thorns that lurking lay To wound the wretched pilgrims of the earth, Making them rue the hour that gave them birth, And threw them on a world so full of pain, Where prosperous folly treads on patient worth, And to deaf pride misfortune pleads... | |
 | Biography - 1801 - 496 pages
...they feel the thurni that lurking lay, To wound the wretched pilgrims of the earth, Making them rue the hour that gave them birth, And threw them on a world fo full of pain, Where profperuut folly treads on patient worth, [ And, In deaf pride, misfortune pUud< in vain ! Ah! for... | |
 | 1801 - 606 pages
...nifc the hour that gave them birth, And threw them on a \frortd sb full of pain, \Yhere prosperous folly treads' on patient worth, And, to deaf pride, misfortune pleads in vain-! Ah ! for their future fate how many fears Opnress«iy heart, and fill mine eyes wlb tears. through... | |
 | Biography - 1801 - 602 pages
...the hour that gave them birth j And threw' them on a world so full of pain, Vk here prosperous tolly treads on patient worth; And, to deaf pride, misfortune pleads in vain-! Ah! for their future fate how many fears Opprcss-my l^art, and fill mine eyes-\viih tears. »:. through... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - English poetry - 1805 - 216 pages
...they feel the thorns that lurking lay To wound the wretched pilgrims of the earth, Making them rue the hour that gave them birth, And threw them on a world so full of pain, Where prosp'rous folly treads on patient worth. P. 148. L. 3. For haply tbou dost... | |
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O happy age ! when Hope's unclouded ray Lights their green path, and prompts their simple mirth; Ere yet they feel the thorns that lurking lay To wound the wretched pilgrims of the earth, Making them rue the hour that gave them birth And threw them on... 
