 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear' d in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, 4 5 And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...; 4O Rich industry sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert and...gloomy waste ; To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, 43 And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...hand ; Kich Industry sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and...And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'..! the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...hand; 40 Rich industry sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert and a gloomy waste, To savage heasts and savage laws a prey, 4> Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air nnd floods; The lonely lords... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...hand; Rich Industry sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and...And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claini'd the skies, dispeopled air and floodi, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Mot thus the land appcar'd iri ages past, A dreaiy desart, . And unrewarded virtue toil — to fail ! The moral...world a second chaos lie. And nature sicken to the tho Whoclaim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - Great Britain - 1809 - 166 pages
...pointed out, and are much wanted. England should not be now, as — • In ages past, A dreary desart, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts, and savage laws...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they." POPE. In spite of the present gloomy aspect of affairs, it must be evident to any one who will look... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 458 pages
...England should not be now, as — • In ages past, A dreaiy rtesart, and a gloomy waste, To sa"age beasts, and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they." POPE. In spite of the present gloomy aspect of affairs, it must be evident to any one who will look... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...hand; rich industry sits smiling on the plains, and peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, a dreary desert, and...than they; who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and iloi the lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and ( (for... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...'40 rich industry sits smiling on the plains, and peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, a dreary desert, and...gloomy waste, to savage beasts and savage laws a prey, • 45 and kings more furious and severe than they; who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods,... | |
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Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, 45 And kings more furious and severe than they... 
