 | John Bell - 1807 - 520 pages
...Vain arc thy thoughts, while thou thyself art dust ii. Let Wit her sails, her oars let Wisdom lead, The helm let politic Experience guide; Yet cease to...short-liv'd hark shall ride Down spreading Fate's unnavigahle tide. What tho' still it further tend? Still 'tis further from its end, And in the hosom... | |
 | Friedrich Bouterwek - Literature - 1810 - 500 pages
.... Mortify thy learned luft. Vain are thy thoughts, while thou thyfelf art dun. Let wit her failt , her oars let wisdom lend ; The helm let politic experience guide; Yet ceafc to hope thy fhort-liv'd bark fhall ride , Down fhreading fate's urmavigable tide. < . , Whit... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...suppress thy knowing pride ; Mortify thy learned lust: Vain are thy thoughts, while thou thyself art dust. Let Wit her sails, her oars let Wisdom lend ; The...let politic Experience guide ; Yet cease to hope thy short-lived bark shall ride Down spreading Fate's unnavigable tide. What though still it farther tend,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...keepe the barke right that she cast not thwart the shore. Hackluyt. Voyaget, Ufe. M. Caesar Frederick. Let wit her sails, her oars let wisdom lend ; The...let politic experience guide : Yet cease to hope thy sliort-liv'd bark shall ride Down spreading fate's unnavigable tide. Prior. Ode on Krodut, iii. 14.... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 pages
...thy knowing pride ; Mortify thy learned lust. Vain are thy thoughts, while thou thyself art dust. II. Let Wit her sails, her oars let Wisdom lend; The helm...Experience guide : Yet cease to hope thy short-liv'd bark shall ride Down spreading fate's unnavigable tide. What though still it farther tend Still 'tis... | |
 | Matthew Prior - English poetry - 1858 - 500 pages
...thy knowing pride; Mortify thy learned lust! Vain are thy thoughts, while thou thyself art dust. 2 Let Wit her sails, her oars let Wisdom lend ; The...let politic Experience guide : Yet cease to hope thy short-lived bark shall ride Down spreading Fate's unnavigable tide. What, though still it farther tend?... | |
 | Matthew Prior - English poetry - 1860 - 338 pages
...suppress thy knowing pride ; Mortify thy learned lust! Vain are thy thoughts, while thou thyself art dust. Let Wit her sails, her oars let "Wisdom lend ; The...Experience guide : Yet cease to hope thy short-liv'd bark shall ride Down spreading Fate's unnavigable tide. What, though still it farther tend ? Still... | |
 | Matthew Prior - English poetry - 1866 - 350 pages
...Vain are thy thoughts, while thou thyself art dust. Let Wit her sails, her oars let Wisdom lend ; 11 The helm let politic Experience guide : Yet cease to hope thy short-liv'd bark shall ride Down spreading Fate's unnavigable tide. What, though still it farther tend ? Still... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...with new taunts insult the monster's ear. POPE. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. POPE. Let wit her sails, her oars let wisdom lend ; The...let politic experience guide: Yet cease to hope thy short-lived bark shall ride Down spreading fate's unnavigable tide. PRIOR. The future few or more,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...with new taunts insult the monster's ear. POPE. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. POPE. Let wit her sails, her oars let wisdom lend ; The...let politic experience guide: Yet cease to hope thy short-lived bark shall ride Down spreading fate's unnavigable tide. PRIOR. The future few or more,... | |
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Let Wit her sails, her oars let "Wisdom lend ; The helm let politic Experience guide : Yet cease to hope thy short-liv'd bark shall ride Down spreading Fate's unnavigable tide. What... 
