 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy I Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own. • At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank nn wieldly woe ; Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, îoast ingenious, mass of rank unwieldy woe ; Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own ; At every draught more large and large they growv A bloated mass of rank unwieldy wo ; Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down,... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Kingdoms at length, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour, not their own ; At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unweildy woe, Till capped their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own : At every draught more large and large they gro\wp A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe; Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down,... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - Temptation - 1837 - 204 pages
...their pleasures only to destroy t Kingdoms by thcc to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigor not their own ; At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank, unwieldy woe: Till sapped their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down, they sink,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...insidious joy Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own. At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe ; Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...insidious joy Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own. At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe ; Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own : At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe ; Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...thi'ir pleasures only to destroy! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a 111 ч il s, And all around distressful yells arise, The pensive exile, bending with his wo mass of rank unwieldy woe; Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink,... | |
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O luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are things like these for thee! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy! Kingdoms, by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid... 
