 | William Mason - English poetry - 1803 - 252 pages
...feel, And shrinks beneath the wound. In awful poverty his honest Muse Walks forth vindictive thro' a venal land : In vain Corruption sheds her golden dews, In vain Oppression lifts her iron hand ; * Andrew Marvel, born at Kingston upon Hull in the year 1620. f See The Rehearsal iransproscd, and... | |
 | William Mason - Church music - 1811 - 526 pages
...feel, And shrinks beneath the wound. In awful poverty his honest Muse Walks forth vindictive thro' a venal land : In vain Corruption sheds her golden...alone, Bids Lust and Folly tremble on the throne. NOTES. * Andrew Marvell, born at Kingston upon Hull in the year 1620. f See The Rehearsal transprosed,... | |
 | William Mason - Gardens - 1811 - 524 pages
...feel, And shrinks beneath the wound. In awful poverty his honest Muse Walks forth vindictive thro' a venal land : In vain Corruption sheds her golden dews, In vain Oppression lifts her iron hand ; He.scorns them both, and, arm'd with Truth alone, Bids Lust and Folly tremble on the throne. NOTES.... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...Mason, in his ' Ode to Independence,' says: " In aweful poverty his honest Muse Walks forth, vindictive, through a venal land; In vain Corruption sheds her...hand: He scorns them both, and arm'd with truth alone, Bid Lust and Folly tremble on the throne." * His power over Prince Rupert was such, that whenever he... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...in his ' Ode to Independence,' says : 41 In aweful poverty his honest Muse Walks forth, vindictive, through a venal land ; In vain Corruption sheds her...: He scorns them both, and arm'd with truth alone, Bid Lust and Folly tremble on the throne." * His power over Prince Rupert was such, that whenever he... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 574 pages
...his " Ode to Independence,*' says of him, " In awful poverty his honest muse Walks forth vindictive through a venal land : In vain Corruption sheds her...scorns them both, and arm'd with TRUTH alone, Bids liwt and folly tremble on the throne.*' Perhaps no corrupt and debauched monarch ever was more stung... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...learns to feel, And shrinks beneath the wound. In awful poverty his honest Muse Walks forth vindictive through a venal land: In vain Corruption sheds her...alone, Bids Lust and Folly tremble on the throne. i Andrew Marvell, born at Kingston-npon-Hnll in 1020. 2 See The Rehearsal Transposed, and an account... | |
 | William Mason - 1830 - 166 pages
...learns to feel, And shrinks beneath the wound. In awful poverty his honest Muse Walks forth vindictive through a venal land : In vain Corruption sheds her...alone, Bids Lust and Folly tremble on the throne. V. Behold, like him, immortal maid, The Muses' vestal fires I bring : Here, at thy feet, the sparks... | |
 | John Dove - 1832 - 128 pages
...in his "Ode to Independence," says of him, " In awful poverty his honest muse Walks forth vindictive through a venal land ; In vain corruption sheds her...her iron hand ; He scorns them both, and arm'd with TKUTH alone. Bids Lust and Folly tremble on the throne." It may be here remarked, that if the " Qualification... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1832 - 574 pages
...Ode to Independence,*1 »ays of him, • I n awful poverty his honest muse \Vatlcs forth vindictive through a venal land ; In vain Corruption sheds her...Oppression lifts her Iron hand ; He scorns them both, and ann'd with TRUTH aloof, Bids lust and folly tremble on the throne." Perhaps no corrupt and debauched... | |
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gainst thine and Freedom's foes. IV. Pointed with Satire's keenest steel, The shafts of Wit he darts around ; E'en mitred Dulness learns to feel, And shrinks beneath the wound. In awful poverty his honest Muse Walks forth vindictive through a venal land... 
