 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...tyrants bled, But while the subject starved, the beast was fed. Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase her, let her sail ; Our cares are only for the public weal : Let me be dcem'd barbarous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The fields are ravish'd" from the industrious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 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. Ver. 45. savage laws] The Forest Laws. See the account of them in Blackctone's excellent Lectures ;... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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 the industrious... | |
 | Robert Somers - Famines - 1848 - 228 pages
...Historical Parallel — A Crisis approaching in the Highlands. " Proud Nimrod first the Moody chase began. A mighty hunter — and his prey was man. Our haughty Norman boasts the barbarous name. And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The fields are ravished trom industrious... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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'di from the industrious... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...tyrants bled, But that 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 the' industrious... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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 the industrious... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...tyrants bled, But while the subject starved, the beast was fed. eo 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'd1 from the industrious... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...tyrants bled, But while the subject starved, the beast was fed. eo 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'd1 from the 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... 
