 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 166 pàgines
...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...some of its old customs, alias prejudices, or, in more appropriate terms, marks of the chain of the dark ages; and Britons, whose courage and constancy... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pàgines
...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'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods ; The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pàgines
...Stuart reigns. Mot thus the land appcar'd iri ages past, A dreaiy desart, and a gloomy waste ; To savage 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pàgines
...Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appearM 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'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pàgines
...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'd the skies, dispeopled air and iloi the lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities laid... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - 1812 - 696 pàgines
...described by Pope in his Windsor Forest: In ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, t f To savage Beasts and savage Laws a Prey, And Kings more furious and severe than they.—&c.* * Yet we have an Instance of Forbearance in EDWARD the Confessor, which, (as mentioned... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pàgines
...reigns. ' Not thus the land appear'd hi 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'd the skies, dispeopled air and foods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
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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... 
