 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...Author shuns by vulgar springs to move, The hero's glory, or the virgin's love: 10 In pitying love, we but our weakness show, And wild ambition well deserves its woe. Here tears shall flow from a more gen'rous cause. Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws : He bids your breasts with ancient ardour... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...XIV. wished to have pardoned the Cardinal de Bohan after hearing the " Cwa " of Corneille.— Warton, He bids your breasts with ancient ardour rise, And calls forth Roman drops from British eyes. Virtue confessed in human shape he draws, What Plato thought, and godlike Cato was : No common object to your... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 292 pages
...Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love ; In pitying love we but our weakness show, And wild ambition well deserves its woe. Here tears shall Jlow from a more gen'rous cause, Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws : He bids your breasts... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1797 - 462 pages
...our weahness show, And wild ambition well deserves its woe. Here tears shall faw from a mort gen'rous cause, Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws...calls forth Roman drops from British eyes. Virtue confess'd in human shape he draws, What Plato thaught, and god-lihe Cato was : No common ol>jec-l to... | |
 | English drama - 1797 - 462 pages
...Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love ; In pitying love we but our weakness show, And wild ambition well deserves its woe, Here tears shall Jlow from a more gen'rous cause, Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws „• He bids your breasts... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 380 pages
...Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love ; In pitying Love we but our weakness show, And wild Ambition well deserves its woe. Here tears shall flow from a more gen'rcms cause, Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws : He bids your breasts with ancient ardor... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 440 pages
...author shuns, bv vulgar springs, to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love ; i " In pitying Love we but our weakness show, And wild Ambition well deserves its woe. .o = Here tears shall flow from a more gen'rous cause, . Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love; In pitying love we but our weakness show, And wild ambition well deserves...calls forth Roman drops from British eyes. Virtue confess'd in human shape he draws, What Plato thought, and godlike Cato was: No common object to your... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love : 10 In pitying love we but our weakness show, And wild ambition well deserves its woe. Here tears shall flow from a more gen'rous cause, Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws : He bids your breasts with ancient ardour... | |
 | James Burgh - 1804 - 312 pages
...author shuns by vulgar springs to move, The hero's glory, or ihevirgins love. • In pitying love, we but our weakness show, ; And wild ambition well deserves its -woe. ' Here tears shall jSoie from a more gen' rous cause, Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws. He bids your breast... | |
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The hero's glory, or the virgin's love ; In pitying love, we but our weakness show, And wild ambition well deserves its woe. 
