 Thy spirit, Independence ! let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I follow 'with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.  Quarterly Review - Page 1071858Full view - About this book
 | Several Hands - 1774 - 622 pages
...profeffion's froth ; And pale Difeafe, with all his bloated train, Torments the fons 'of gluttony and floth. STROPHE. In Fortune's car behold that minion ride, With either India's glittering fpoils oppreft '. So moves the fumpter-'mule, in harnefs'd pride, That bears the treafure Which he... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1777 - 336 pages
...Profeffion's froth; And pale Difeafe, with all his bloated train, Torments the fons of Gluttony and Sloth. STROPHE. In Fortune's car behold that minion ride, With either India's glittering fpoils oppreft : So moves the fumpter-mule, in harnefs'd pride, That bears the treafure which he cannot... | |
 | 1781 - 516 pages
...profeflion's froth, And pale Difeafe, with all his blafted train, Torments the forts of Gluttony and Sloth. STROPHE. In Fortune's car behold that minion ride, With either India's glittering fpoils opprefs'd : So moves the fumpter-mule, in harnefs'd pride, That bears the treafure which he... | |
 | G. Pearch, Robert Dodsley - 1783 - 346 pages
...profeffions froth, And pale Difeafe with all his bloated train Torments the fons of Gluttony and Sloth; STROPHE. In Fortune's car behold that minion ride, With either India's glittering fpoils oppreft : So moves the fumpter-mule, in harnefs'd pride, That bears the treafure which he cannot... | |
 | John Bell - 1790 - 380 pages
...SMOLLETT, MD STROPHE. THY spirit, Independence, let me share ! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. Deep in the frozen regions of the North, A Goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty, whose... | |
 | 1790 - 194 pages
...professions froth, And pale Disease witli all his bloated train Torments the sons of Gluttony and Sloth. STROPHE. In Fortune's car behold that minion ride, With either India's glittering spoils opprest : So moves the sumpter-mule, in harness'd pride, That bears the treasure which he cannot taste.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 526 pages
...froth ; 90, And pale difeafe, with all Tiis bloated train, Torments the fons of gluttony and floth. STROPHE. In fortune's car behold that minion ride, With either India's glittering fpoils opprefs'd : So moves the fumpter-mule, in harnefs'd pride, That bears the treafure which he... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 520 pages
...be wished ?" " Thy spirit, Independence, let me share j " Lord of the lion-heart, and eagle eye ! " Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, " Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky !" Are not these noble verses ? They are the introduction of Smollefs Ode to Independence : If you... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805 - 908 pages
...devoutly to be wished?" "Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; Lord of ihe lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I. follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky !" " Are not these noble verses ? They are the introduction of Smollet's Ode to Independence. How wretched... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 pages
...Independence. STftOPHE. IHY spirit, Independence, let me share Lord of the lion-heart, and eagle-eye, 1'hy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty, whose... | |
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