 | William Cowper - 1786 - 756 pages
...eloquent themfelves, yet fear to break, What is it but a map of bufy life, Its fluctuations and its vaft concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the fummit, fee, The feals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grafps them. At his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1787 - 342 pages
...eloquent themfelves, yet fear to break ; What is it but a map of bufy life, Its fiu&uations, and its vaft concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the fummit, fee, The feals of office glitter in his eyes j He climbs, he pants, he grafps them. At his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1788 - 376 pages
...eloquent themfelves, yet fear to break | What is it but a map of bufy life, Its fluctuations, and its vaft concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the fummit, fee, The feals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grafps them. At his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1790 - 300 pages
...themfelves, yet fear to break ; What is it but a map of byfy life., Its fluctuations, and its vaft concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the fummit, fee, The feals of office glitter La his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grafps them. At his... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 964 pages
...thcmfelves, yet fear to break— What is it but a map of bufy life, Its fluctuations, and its \ ait concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the fummtr, fee, The fcals of office glitter in his eyes ; [beelsj He climbs, he pants, he grafJM them.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 510 pages
...eloquent themfcKcs, yet fear to break, " What is it but a map of bufy life, Jts fluctuations, and its vaft concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the fummit, fee, The feals of office glitter in his eyes; [heels, He climbs, he pants, he grafps them.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1793 - 384 pages
...eloquent themfelves, yet fear to break; What is it, but a map of bufy life, Its fluctuations, and its vaft concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the fummit fee The feals of office glitter in his eye's; He climbs, he pants, he grafps them ! At his heels,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break; What is it, but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous...He climbs, he pants, he grasps them ! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dext'rous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 364 pages
...themfelves, yet fear to break ;. What is it, but a map of bufy life, Its fluctuations, and its vaft concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge. That tempts. ambition. On the fummit fee The feals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grafps them ! At his heel(t... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break; What is it, but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous...That tempts ambition. On the summit see The seals of oflice glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! Athis-beels, Close at his heels,... | |
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Which not even critics criticise ; that holds Inquisitive attention, while I read, Fast bound in chains of silence, which the fair, Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break ; What is it, but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns... 
