 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...appear' d in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, 4 5 And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods. The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and cave-, (For... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert and a gloomy waste ; To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, 43 And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods ; Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and caves, (For... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey,...And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'..! the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey,...Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and caves, (For... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past,-. A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To. savage beasts and savage laws a...Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and caves (For... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey,...And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claini'd the skies, dispeopled air and floodi, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns Not thus the land appear'd in ages past,. A. dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey,...they; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods ; The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and caves, (For... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - Great Britain - 1809 - 166 pages
...out, and are much wanted. England should not be now, as — • In ages past, A dreary desart, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts, and savage laws a...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they." POPE. In spite of the present gloomy aspect of affairs, it must be evident to any one who will look... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Mot thus the land appcar'd iri ages past, A dreaiy desart, and a unrewarded virtue toil — to fail ! The moral world a second chaos lie. And nature sicken to the tho Whoclaim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 458 pages
...England should not be now, as — • In ages past, A dreaiy rtesart, and a gloomy waste, To sa"age beasts, and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they." POPE. In spite of the present gloomy aspect of affairs, it must be evident to any one who will look... | |
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Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities laid waste, they storm'd the dens and caves (For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves). 
