 scape, despis'd or aw'd, Rebellion's vengeful talons seize on Laud. From meaner minds, though smaller fines content The plunder'd palace, or sequester'd rent; Mark'd out by dangerous parts he meets the shock, And fatal Learning leads him to the block:...  A Collection of Poems ... - Σελίδα 153επεξεργασία από - 1758Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 760 σελίδες
...and his sincere, though mistaken ardour in defending the religion which he believed and revered — " Around his tomb let art and genius weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear, and sleep." JOHNSON. PAGE 46. — Lons Parliament. e> " Happy had been the people if their leaders, after... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1829 - 590 σελίδες
...content, The plundered palace or sequestered rent. Mark'd out by dangerous parts he meets the shock, And fatal learning leads him to the block. Around...weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep." DR. JOHNSON. CHAPTER XXIII. 1644—5. Condemnation of the Archbishop by the Commons to die... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 σελίδες
...content, The plunder'd palace, or sequester'd rent; Mark'd out by dangerous parts he meets the shock, And fatal learning leads him to the block : Around...weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep. The festal blazes, the triumphal show. The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's... | |
 | James Hogg - 1834 - 510 σελίδες
...an act we can scarcely speak too harshly. Should he ere this have closed his painful toil of life, " Around his tomb let art and genius weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep." Under similar reverses the Ettrick Shepherd found his character gone. No one would employ him,... | |
 | Juvenal - 1837 - 306 σελίδες
...content, The plunder'd palace, or sequester'd rent; 170 Mark'd out by dang'rous parts, he meets the shock. And fatal learning leads him to the block : Around...weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep. The festal blazes, the triumphal show, 175 The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - 1839 - 482 σελίδες
...content The plunder'd palace, or sequester'd rent ; Mark'd out by dangerous parts he meets the shock, And fatal learning leads him to the block ; Around...weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep. The Vanity of Human Wishes. Bowack thus describes this Chapel in 1705. " The very name of a... | |
 | 1840 - 368 σελίδες
...content, The plunder'd palace, or sequester'd rent ; Mark'd out by dang'rous parts, he meets the shock, And fatal Learning leads him to the block : Around...weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep. The festal blazes, the triumphal show, The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 σελίδες
...content, The plundered palace or sequester'd rent, Mark'd out by dang'rous parts he meets the shock, And fatal learning leads him to the block : Around...weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep. The festal blazes, the triumphal show. The ravish 'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's... | |
 | Nicholas Assheton - 1848 - 278 σελίδες
...content, The plunder'd palace or sequester'd rent, Marked out by dangerous parts he meets the shock, And fatal Learning leads him to the block ! Around...weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep !" (') I suppose this to have been Bannister of Altham. Colwick, the seat of this branch of the... | |
 | Nicholas Assheton - 1848 - 228 σελίδες
...content, The plunder'd palace or sequester'd rent, Marked out by dangerous parts he meets the shock, And fatal Learning leads him to the block ! Around his tomb let Art and Genins weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep !" (') I suppose this to have been Bannister... | |
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