 | Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 176 pages
...or cunning driv'n To Mis'ryVbrink, Till wrench'd o'f -ev'ry stay but Heaven, He, ruin'd, sink'! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—'...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! VOL. n. ODE III. -LHY form has a resistless grace, And gladness is thy dwelling-place, Ah, soft enslaver... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 pages
...stay but Heaven, He, ruin'd, sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine-' BO distant date : Stern ruin's plough-share drives elate...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! VOL. n. ODE III. JL li Y form has a resistless grace, And gladness is thy dwelling-place, Ah, soft... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...v'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To misery's brink, Till wrench'd of every stay but Heav'n^ Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND '. M»y ,I7gS. I LANG hae thought, my yonthfu' friend, A something to have... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 440 pages
...driven To misery's brink, Till, wrenched of every stay but heaven, He ruined sink. Ev'n thou who mown'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine No distant date...plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom. I have seldom met with an image more truly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 366 pages
...wrench'd of every stay but Heaven, He ruined sink. Ev'n thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, Tbatfnte Is thine • No distant date ; Stern Ruin's plough-share...elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrows weight, Shall be thy doom. I have seldom met with an image more truly pastoral than that of... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...striv'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To misery's brink, Till wrench'd of every stay but Heav'n, Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! AFTON WATER. FLOW gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That f ale is thine — no distant date ; Stern ruin/s plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till...the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! TO RUIN. L ALL hail ! inexorable lord ! At whose destruction-breathing word, The mightiest empires fall ! Thy... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...cunning driv'n To mis'ry's brink, Till, wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date; Stern Ruin's pleugh.share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...rivulet. (3) A declivity, a precipice, the slope of a bill. •Dr. Young. T .fTO RUIN. BY ROBERT BURNS. I. ALL hail, inexorable lord ! At whose destruction-breathing...empires fall ! Thy cruel, woe-delighted train, The ministers of grief and pain, A sullen welcome, all ! , With stern-resolved, despairing eye.. I see... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...pride or cunning driv'n To Mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heaven, He ruin'd MDK ! E'en thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine...beneath the furrow's weight, • Shall be thy doom ! ^ 170. An Essay upon unnatural Flights in Poetry. LANDSDOWNB. As when some image of a charming face,... | |
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... Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To... 
