| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...barbVous growth Of ignorance and rapine , bow her down To tame pursuits , to indolence and fear? Lo ! she appeals to nature , to the winds And rolling waves, the sun's unwearied course j The elements and seasons: all declare For what th' eternal Maker has ordain'd The powrrs of man :... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...growtlf'*'-- Of Ignorance and rapine, bow henftrwir' - -. To tame pursuits, to indolence and fear ? Lo ! she appeals to nature, to the winds And rolling waves, the sun's unwearied course, The elements and seasons : all declare For what th' eternal Maker has ordain'd The pow'rs of man : we feel within ourselves... | |
| Mark Akenside, Thomas Park - 1808 - 358 pages
...barbarous growth Of ignorance and rapine, bow her down To tame pursuits, to indolence and fear? Lo ! she appeals to nature, to the winds And rolling waves, the sun's unwearied course, The elements and seasons : all declare For what the' Eternal Maker has ordain'd The powers of man : we feel within ourselves... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...then mightier far Will be the change, and nobler. Would the forms Of servile custom cramp her generous power ? Would sordid policies, the barbarous growth Of ignorance and rapine, bow her down To tame pursuits, to indolence and fear? Lo! she appeals to nature, to the winds And rolling... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...barb'rous growth Of ignorance and rapine, bow her down To lame pursuits, to indolence and fear ; Lo ! she appeals to nature, to the winds And rolling waves, the sun's unwearied course, The elements and seasons ; all declare For what th' eternal MAKER has ordain'd The powers of man : we feel within ourselves... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...barbarous growth Of Ignorance and Hapine, bow her down To tame pursuits, to indolence and fear ; Itp ! she appeals to Nature, to the winds And rolling waves, the sun's unwearied course, The elements and seasons : all declare For what the eternal Maker has ordain'd The powers of man : we feel within ourselves.... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...barb'ro:is growth Of ignoranee and rapine, bow her down To tame pursuits, to indolenee and fear ? Lo ! she appeals to nature, to the winds And rolling waves, the sun's unwearied eourse, The elements and seasons : all deelare For what the eternal MAKER has ordain'd The pow'rs of... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 536 pages
...obedience. When she feels that she has been con. demned unjustly at the bar of criticism: "Lo! she appeals to Nature — to the winds "And rolling waves, the sun's unwearied course, "The elements and seasons."* So far as the decisions of Taste correspond with the exhibitions of Nature, they may be... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1818 - 352 pages
...soars above the present state of humanity, and may be justly said to dwell in the presence of the Most High. would the forms Of servile custom cramp the...barbarous growth Of ignorance and rapine, bow him down To fame pursuits, to indolence and fear ? Lo! he appeals to nature, to the winds And rolling waves, the... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...barbarous growth Of ignorance and rapine, bow her down To tame pursuits, to indolence and fear ? Lo ! she appeals to Nature, to the winds And rolling waves, the Sun's unwearied course, The elements and seasons : all declare For what the eternal Maker has ordain "J The powers of man : we feel within ourselves... | |
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