| John Gay - 1728 - 218 pages
...our fires have born the chain? Confider, friends, your ftrength and might j 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right. How cumb'rous is the gilded coach! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-fhare through the foil, To fweat in harnefs through the... | |
| John Gay - 1770 - 204 pages
...borne the chain ? Confider, friends, your ftrength and might ; 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right. How How cumb'rous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-mare through the foil ; To fweat in harnefs through the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 362 pages
...tires have borne the chain ? Confider, Friends! vour ftrength and might ; 15 'Tis conqueft to alTert your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defignM for dailv toil, . To drag the plough-fliare through the foil, if To fweat in harnefs through... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 316 pages
...fires have borne the chain ? Confider, Friends! your ftrength and might; 15 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-fhare through the foil, 20 To fweat in harnefs through... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...our fires have borne the chain ? Conlider, friends, your ftrcngth and might ! 'Tis conqueil to allert your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we dcfign'd for daily toil, To drag the ploughlhare through the foil, To fweat in harncfs through the... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...borne the chain > l?onfider, friends, your ftrength and might) Tis conqueft to aflcrt your right. rlow . MASON. tj" RE yet, ingenuous youth, thy fteps retire [vale, From Cam's dengn'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-mare through the foi^ To Iweat in harnefs through the road,... | |
| John Gay - 1792 - 250 pages
...our fires have borne the chain ? Confidcr, friends, your Jtrength and night, 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right. • — '' How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toilr •> To drag the plough-mare through the foil, \ To fweat in harnefs through... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...our fires have borne the chain ' Confider, friends, your ftrcngth and might> 'Tis conqucft to alTcrt your right. How cumbrous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough-iharc through the foil, To fu cat i.: harncls through the... | |
| John Bell - 1797 - 424 pages
...how abject is our race, Condemn'd to slay'ry and disgrace ! Shall we our servitude retain, . Because our sires have borne the chain ? Consider, Friends...we design'd for daily toil. To drag the ploughshare thro' the soil, , zo To sweat in harness thro' the road. To groan beneath the carrier's load? How feeble... | |
| John Gay - 1799 - 280 pages
...our fires have borne the chain ? Confider, friends, your ftrength and might ; 'Tis conqueft to aflert your right. How cumb'rous is the gilded coach ! The pride of man is our reproach. Were we defign'd for daily toil, To drag the plough fhare through the foil, To fweat in harnefs through the... | |
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