 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 σελίδες
...breafts of kings and heroes glows. Moil fuuls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age, Dull lullen pris'ncrs in the body's cage; Dim lights of life, that burn a length of yean, Ufelcfs, unfcen, as lamps m fepulchrcs ; Like catttrn kings, a lazy líate they keep, And, dole... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 σελίδες
...breafts of Kings and Heroes glows. Moft fouls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age, Dull fullen pris'ners in the body's cage : Dim lights of life, that burn a length of years Ufelefs, unfeen, as lamps in fepulchres j 20 Like NOTES. The cruelties of her relations, the defolation... | |
 | British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 σελίδες
...breafts of kings and heroes glows. Moft fouls, 'tis true, peep out but once an age, Dull fullen pris'ners in the body's cage : Dim lights of life, that burn a length of years Ufelefs, unfcen, as lamps in fepukhres ; Like eaftern kings, a lazy Rate they keep, And, clofe ronfin'd... | |
 | John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 174 σελίδες
...such licences ? AUTH. No ; but he sometimes used them, even in heroic verse: As in this couplet, " Dim lights of life, that burn a length of years, " Useless, unseen, as lamps in sepulchres. " An hundred other instances might be given; whence we may conclude, that he did not always think them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 496 σελίδες
...of Kings and Heroes glows. Mod fouls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age,' fiill in!] -n prifoners in the body's cage : Dim lights of life, that burn a length of years, Ufelefs, unfeen, as lamp: in fepukhres; Like Eaftern Kings a lazy ftate they keep, And, clofe confin'd... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 σελίδες
...blest abodes, The glorious faults of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on earth it Hows, And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows. Most souls, 'tis true, peep out but once an age. Dull sullen pris'ners in the body's cage; Dim lights of life, that burn a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 σελίδες
...blest abodes, The glorious fault of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on earth it flows, 15 And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows. Most...souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age, Dull sullen pris'ners in the body's cage : Dim lights of life, that burn a length of years, Useless, unseen, as... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 σελίδες
...hut peep ont once an age , Dull sullen pris'ners in the hody's cage; Dim lights of life, that hurn a length of years Useless, unseen, as lamps in sepulchres; Like eastern kings, a lazy state they keep, And close confm'd to their own palace sleep. From these perhaps (ere Nature hade her... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 σελίδες
...glorious fault of angels and of gods: Thence to their images on earth it flows , And in the breast of kings and heroes glows. Most souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an agfij Dull sullen pris'ners in the body's cage: Dim lights of life, that burn a length of years Useless,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 σελίδες
...the breads oT Kings and Heroes glows. ' Moft foul?, 'tis true, but peep out once an age, Dull fullen prisoners in the body's cage : Dim lights of life, that burn a lei-plh of years, Uieleff, uufeen, as lamps iu fepukhres ; Like Eaftern Kings a lazy fla'.e they keep,... | |
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Why bade ye else, ye powers ! her soul aspire Above the vulgar flight of low desire? Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the breasts of kings and heroes... 
