 As for the dog, the furies, and their snakes, The gloomy caverns, and the burning lakes, And all the vain infernal trumpery, They neither are, nor were, nor e'er can be. But here on earth, the guilty have in view The mighty pains to. mighty mischiefs...  Of the Nature of Things: In Six Books - Page 270by Titus Lucretius Carus - 1714Full view - About this book
 | William Dunlap - Literary Criticism - 1836 - 232 pages
...When cold winter splits the rocks in twain, And ice the running rivers did restrain."— Cowley. " But here on earth the guilty have in view The mighty pains to mighty mischiefs due. — Drydm. 'i In whatsoever character The book of fate is writ. 'Tis well we understand... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...hell To leaky vessels, which the liquor spill ; [fill. To vessels of their sex, which none could ever As for the dog, the furies, and their snakes, The...the guilty have in view The mighty pains to mighty mischiefs due; Racks, prisons, poisons, the Tarpeiun rock, Stripefl, hangmen, pitch, and suffocating... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...hell To leaky vessels, which the liquor spill ; [fill. To vessels of their sex, which none could ever As for the dog, the furies, and their snakes, The gloomy caverns, and the hurning lakes, And all the vain infernal trumpery, They neither are, nor were, nor e'er can he. But... | |
 | William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 440 pages
...When cold winter splits the rocks in twain, And ice the running rivers did restrain." — Cowley. " But here on earth the guilty have in view The mighty pains to mighty mischiefs due. — Dryilen. " In whatsoever character The book of fate is writ. 'Tis well we understand... | |
 | William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 568 pages
...liquor spill, And which their cheated labour ne'er could lili. A? for the dos;, the furies, and the snakes, The gloomy caverns, and the burning lakes,...are, nor were, nor e'er can be. But here on earth the guil'X have in view The mighty pains to mighty mischiefs due ; Racks, prisons, poisons, the Tarpeian... | |
 | William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...liquor spill, And which their cheated labour ne'er could till. As for the dog, the furies, and the snakes, The gloomy caverns, and the burning lakes,...trumpery, They neither are, nor were, nor e'er can be. Bui here on earth the guilty have in view Tin- mighty pains to mighty mischiefs due; Riicks, prisons,... | |
 | William Peter - 1856 - 590 pages
...liquor spill, And which their cheated labour ne'er could Jill. As for the dog, the furies, and the snakes, The gloomy caverns, and the burning lakes,...the guilty have in view The mighty pains to mighty mischiefs due ; Racks, prisons, poisons, the Tarpeian rock, Stripes, hangmen, pitch, and suffocating... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...hell To leaky vessels, which the liquor spill ; [fill. To vessels of their sex, which none could evef As for the dog, the furies, and their snakes, The gloomy caverns, and the hurning lakes, And all the vain infernal trumpery, They neither are, nor were, nor e'er can he, But... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...To leaky vessels, which the liquor spill ; XXI To vessels of their sex, which none could ever fill. e, te underplot, how can it be so pleasing as the English, which have both underplot and mischiefs due ; Racks, prisons, poisons, the Tarpeian rock, Stripes, hangmen, pitch, and suffocating... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...vessels of their вех, which none could ever fill. As for the dogs, the furies, and their snakes, Tho y grace, admit us 'rnongst the blest. Thomas Heywood. 1513. GOD, Seeking. mischiefs due; Racks, prisons, poisons, the Tarpeian rock, Stripes, hangmen, pitch, and suffocating... | |
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