 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...for sportive tyrants bied, But 'while the subject stary'd, the beast was fed. 60 Proud Nimrod irst the bloody chace began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our haughty Norraan boasts that barb'rous name, And makes his trembling daves the royal game. 64 The fields are... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1813 - 820 pages
...POET, whose colouring, scarcely exceeds the strong Language, of his Prototypes. " Proud NIMEOD firtt the bloody Chace began; A mighty Hunter, and his Prey...haughty NORMAN boasts that barb'rous Name, And makes his haughty Slaves the royal Game, The Fields are ravish'd from th* industrious Swains, From MEN, their... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - Falconry - 1813 - 568 pages
...versified by the above POET, whose colouring, scarcely exceeds the strong Language, of his Prototypes. " Proud NIMROD first the bloody Chace began; A mighty Hunter, and his Prey was MAN. Our haughty N OEM AN boasts that barb'rous Name, And makes his haughty Slaves the royal Game, The Fields are ravish'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...sportive tyrants bled; while the subject starved, the beast was fed. Z Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began ; A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our haughty Norman boasts that barbarous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The fields are ravish'd from th' industrious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...Tyrants bled, But while the subject starv'd, the beast was fed. 60 Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our...name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. 64 VARIATIONS. Ver. 49. Originally thus in the MS. From towns laid waste, to dens and caves they ran... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...Tyrants bled, But while the subject starv'd, the beast was fed. 60 Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our...name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. 64 VARIATIONS. Ver. 49. Originally thus in the MS. From towns laid waste, to dens and caves they ran... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...Both doom'd alike, for sportive Tyrants bled, But while the subject starv'd, the beast was fed. 60 Proud Nimrod first the bloody chace began, A mighty...name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. jThe fields are ravish'd from th' industrious swains, From men their cities, and from Gods their fanes... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...despotic reign ? Both, doom'd alike, for sportive tyrants bled : But, that the subject starv'd, the the poet, and the song! And while the Muse now stoops,...man's low passions, or their glorious ends, Teach barbarous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The fields are ravish'd from th' industrious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...tyrants bled, But, while the subject starv'd, the beast was fed. Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our haughty Norman boasts that barbarous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The fields are ravish'd from th' industrious... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...tyrants bled ; But, that the subjeet starv'd, the beast was fed. Proud Nimrod first the bloody ehase tarea barbarous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The fields are ravish'd from th' industrious... | |
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Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man; Our haughty Norman boasts that barbarous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The fields are ravish'd from th... 
