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Cæsarea: or, An account of Jersey. To which are added, Notes and ... - Page 286
by Philip Falle - 1837
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The Rural Poetry of the English Language: Illustrating the Seasons and ...

Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...tyrants bled ; But while the subject starved, the beast was fed. Proud Niinrod first the bloody chose barbarous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The fields are ravished from the industrious...
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Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 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...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed. by the Rev. H. F. Cary

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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'd1 from the industrious...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with life of the author and notes by J ...

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...bled ; But while the subject starved, the beast was fed. Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, 61 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...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and ...

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...tyrants bled, But while the subject starved, the beast was fed. 60 Proud Niinrod 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 th' industrious...
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Historical ballads, ed. and annotated by C.M. Yonge, arranged to ..., Volume 3

Historical ballads - 1882 - 308 pages
...llistories of England call him Canute. THE NEW FOREST. About 1080. 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 ravished from the industrious...
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The History of the Highland Clearances

Alexander Mackenzie - Biography & Autobiography - 1883 - 592 pages
...playground of the Duke, to whom Pope's lines are most appropriate : — Proud Nirarod first the bloody 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 from industrious...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir and Notes

Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 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'd1 from the industrious...
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The Expositor's Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

James Moffatt - Bible - 1913 - 252 pages
...lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations. " 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 ravished from th' industrious...
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