 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...tyrants bled, But while the subject starved, 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 gameThe fields are ravish'd from the industrious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 234 pages
...sportive tyrants bled, But while the subject starv'd, the beast was fe Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man: Our haughty Norman boasts' that barbarous n And makes his trembling slaves the royal gam The fields are ravish'd from th' industrious... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...tyrants bled ; But, that 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...knaves. Additon. Whose table wit, or modest merit share, I'nelhowcd by a gamester, pimp, or player. Pope. Proud Nimrod first the bloody chace began, A mighty...his prey was man : Our haughty Norman boasts that barbarous name. And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. Id. All the superfluous whims rrlate,... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...Forest we find it conveyed in these elegant and animated lines: " Proud Nimrod first the blood; 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 - 1830 - 500 pages
...tyrants bled, But, while the subject starved, the beast was fed. Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase barbarous name. And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The fields are ravish'd from the industrious... | |
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 370 pages
...tyrants bled ; But, while the subject starved, 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 industrious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...tyrants bled, But, while the subject «tarred, 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 hi« trembling «laves the royal game. The fields are ravish'd from the industrious... | |
 | Philip Falle - Jersey - 1837 - 548 pages
...subject slain Were equal crimes iu a despotic reign ? Both doom'd alike, for sportive tyrant* liled ; Hut while the subject starv'd,the beast was fed. Proud...and his prey -was man : Our haughty Norman boasts thaj harb'rous name, And makes hi* trembling glares the row! panic. Tin:' field'i are ravish'd from... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1838 - 48 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 his 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... 
