| English periodicals - 1781 - 512 pages
...for fportive tyrants bled, But while the fubjeft ftarv'd, the beaft was fed. " 6» Proud Nimrod firft the bloody chace began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our haughty Norman boafts that barb'rous name, And makes his trembling flaves the royal game. The fields arc ravifh'd... | |
| John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 492 pages
...or njubjefl, inftead of the deftruftion of a beaft or a fubjedl, is made a crime. Proud Nimrod firft the bloody chace began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our haughty Norman boafts that barbarous name, And makes his trembling llaves the royal game. The fields are ravifh'd... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - Slave trade - 1788 - 212 pages
...have frequently fpared the figh of the reader of fenfibility and reflection. * " Proud Nimrod firft the bloody chace began, " A mighty hunter, and his prey was man." Pars. •J. ThucydideS, L. 1. fub initio. The piracies, which were thus practifed in the early ages,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...alike for fportivc tyrants bled ; Hut while the fubjcft ftarv'd, the bcaft was fed. Proud Nimrod firft on fairly fpoke By a beloved prince, there doth appear Among the buzzing, boatls that barb'rous name; And makes his trembling flavcs the royal game. The Ik-Ids are ravilh'd... | |
| James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 260 pages
...alike for fponive tyrants bled ; But while the fubjcft flarv'd, the bead was f::d, Proud Nimrod iirfl the bloody chace began ; • .. A mighty hunter, and his prey was man; Our haughty Norman boalls that barb'rous na:ns, And mikes his trembling flaves the royal game. '4"he-ficlJs are raviuVd... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...alike for fportivc tyrmts bled; But while the fubje£l.ftarv'd, the bead was fed. Proud Nimrod h'rft the bloody chace began ; A mighty hunter, and his prey was man: Our haughty Norman boatts that barb'rous name, And makes his trembling (laves the royal game. The held* arc ravilh d from... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...alike, for iportive tyrants bled ; But while the fubjeft ftarv'd, the beaft was fed. Proud Nimrod firft the bloody chace began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man i Our haughty Norman boafts that barb'rous name, And makes his trembling (laves the royal game. The... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...for fportive Tyrants bled, But while the fubjedT: ftarv'd, the beaft was fed. 60 Proud Nimrod firft the bloody chace began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our haughty Norman boafts that barb'rous name, And makes his trembling flaves the royal game. 64 VARIATIONS. VER. 49.... | |
| William Butler - Astronomy - 1803 - 434 pages
...tranfition, employed them in hunting .s fellow man, and reducing him to fubjeftion. Proud Nimrod firft the bloody chace began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. POPE. Ancient monuments' generally reprefcnt Mars u'.der the figure of a man extremely robuft, armed... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 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...his prey was man ; Our haughty Norman boasts that barb'rnus name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The fields are ravish'd from th' industrious... | |
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