Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps, another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela... An Essay on Man - Page 33by Alexander Pope - 1867 - 53 pagesFull view - About this book
| Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...the whole : JJature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps another creature's wants wod woeg. Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove ? Admires the jay, the insect's gilded wings ? , v Or hears the hawk when Plr'omela sings? 5. Man cares for all ; to hirds he gives his wood?, To... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 pages
...control, Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : 50 S'aturc that tyrant checks ; he only knows, \nd helps, another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, T mil with her varying plumage, spare the dove .' Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings ? 65 Or... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...of the whole : Nature th;>- tyraiit checks ; he only knows, And helps anottior creature's wants and Say. will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with...his pastures, and to fish his floods ; For some his int'rest prompts him to provide, For more his pleasures, yet for more his pride. All fed on one vain... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all. Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps, another creature's...gilded wings { Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings t Man cares for all : to birds he gives his woods, To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods ;... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...that the pow'rful still the weak control: Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows, And helps another creature's...gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings 1 6. That very life his learned hunger craves, He saves from famine, from the savage saves; Nay, feasts... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...that tyrant eheeks ; he only knows, And helps another ereature's wants and woes. Say, will the faleon, no memorial, blotted out and ras'd By their rebellion from the books of Life. Nor had th inseet's gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? M an eares for all : to birds he gives... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 268 pages
...all. / Grant that the pow'rful still the weak control ; Be man the* wit and tyrant of the whole : / Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with...pastures, and to fish his floods ; '} For some his int'rest prompts him to provide. For more his pleasures, yet for more his pride. All fed on one vain... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...the pow'rful still the weak control ; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole ; jVature that tyrant checks : he only knows, And helps another creature's...gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? 3 Man cares for all : to birds he gives his woods, To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...still the weak control ; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks ; he on'y knows, And helps another creature's wants and woes....her varying plumage, spare the dove ? Admires the gay the insect's gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? 5. Man cares for all : to... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 224 pages
...provide, For more his pleasures, yet for more his pride: All feed on one vain patron, and enjoy Sniit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires...gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? 6. That very life his learned hunger craves, Th' extensive blessing; of his luxury. He saves from... | |
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