 | THOMAS B. SHAW - 1870
...Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break; What is it, but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous...He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Sir William Smith - 1850 - 477 páginas
...Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break; What is it, but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns ' Here runs the mountainous...eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them ! At his heel*, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870
...and the abrupt extinction of exuberant promise, how often is Cowper's picture realized, where— " Runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts...He climbs, he pants, he grasps them. At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 403 páginas
...and the abrupt extinction of exuberant promise, how often is Cowper's picture realized, where— " Runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts...He climbs, he pants, he grasps them. At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them,... | |
 | David Thomas - 1870
...career, and the abrupt extinction of exuberant promise, how often is Cowper's picture realized where "runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition On the summit, see, The peals of office glit'er in his even ; He climbs, he pants, he giusps tin in. At bis heels, Close at... | |
 | James Grant - 1871
...Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break. What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous...He climbs, he pants, he grasps them. At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them,... | |
 | James Grant - 1871
...Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break. What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous...That tempts ambition. On the summit, see The seals of ofEce glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them. At his heels, Close at his heels,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1872 - 264 páginas
...Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break, What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations and its vast concerns? Here runs the mountainous and...He climbs, he pants, he grasps them. At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dextrous jerk soon twists him down And wins them,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 383 páginas
...Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break ; What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations and its vast concerns? Here runs the mountainous and...He climbs, he pants, he grasps them. At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, 10 "A NECESSARY ACT INCURS NO BLAME." — WILLIAM COWPER.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872
...Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break ; What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns? Here runs the mountainous and...He climbs, he pants, he grasps them ! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them,... | |
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Which not even critics criticise ; that holds Inquisitive attention, while I read, Fast bound in chains of silence, which the fair, Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break ; What is it, but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns... 
