 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...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...dispeopled air and floods. The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and cave-, (For wiser brutes were backward... | |
 | 1794 - 918 pages
...favage laws a prey. And kings more furious and fevcre than they ; \Vho claini'd the ikies, difpenpled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wild« and woods : Cities laid wafie, they ftorm'd the den« and caves (For wifer brutes were backward to be flaves). 50 What could... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert and a gloomy waste ; To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, 43 And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who...dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods ; Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and caves, (For wiser brutes were backward... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...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, 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 - 1808 - 702 pages
...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, And kings more furious and...dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and caves (For wiser brutes were backward... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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, And kings more furious and...dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and caves, (For wiser brutes were hackward... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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, And kings more furious and...dispeopled air and floods ; The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and caves, (For wiser brutes were backward... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...reigns. Mot thus the land appcar'd iri ages past, A dreaiy desart, and a gloomy waste ; To savage beasts il ! 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 - 1809 - 458 pages
...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... | |
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Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and caves (For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves). 
