 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 460 pàgines
...coiiscfence, But that it draws dependencies of power And earthly interest, which you long to sway; Content you with monopolizing heaven, And let this little hanging ball alone : For, give you but a foot of conscience there, And you, like Archimedes, toss the globe. We know your thoughts... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 462 pàgines
...but the crowd. But that it draws dependencies of power And earthly interest, which you long to sway ; Content you with monopolizing heaven, And let this little hanging ball alone : Bbr, give you but a foot of conscience there, And you, like Archimedes, toss the globe. We know your... | |
 | 1811 - 718 pàgines
...to sway. Content you with monopolizing hcav'n, And let this little hanging ball alone ; For give you g. Methinks, he's not so strange; he would quickly be acquainted. Thru. P We know your droughts of us thai laymen are, Lag souls, and rubbish of remaining clay, Which heav'n,... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 712 pàgines
...to sway. Content you with monopolizing heav'n, And let this little hanging ball alone ; For give you but a foot of conscience there, And you, like Archimedes, toss the globe. We know your thoughts of us that laymen are. Lag souls, and rubbish of remaining clay, Which heav'n,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pàgines
...kingdoms. Content you with monopolizing heav'n, And let this little hanging ball alone. For give you but a foot of conscience there, And you, like Archimedes^ toss the globe. DRYDZS. HOLLOW church papists are tike the roots of nettle, which themselves sting not; but yet they... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pàgines
...kingdoms. Content you with monopolizing heav'n, And let this little hanging ball alone : For give you but a foot of conscience there, And you, like Archimedes, toss the globe. Ibid. I met a reverend, fat, old, gouty friar, With a paunch swoll'n so high, his double chin Might... | |
 | William Smyth - 1843 - 484 pàgines
...to purge themselves of their crimes. The Pope himself was to be the lord of the universe. XX1I1. IK Dryden's play of Sebastian, act ii. scene 1, may be...reader of Dryden's plays, and probably borrowed in thjs instance, but without acknowledgment. XXIV. WHEN Charlemagne was no more, the Saxons rushed out... | |
 | 1843 - 522 pàgines
...to rest their engines, and they moved this world at their pleasure." He quotes Dryden's Sebastian : Content you with monopolizing heaven, And let this...conscience there, And you, like Archimedes, toss the globe ! Such is Rome's Priesthood ; not a foot, but the whole of conscience, in its dominion of that world,... | |
 | 1843 - 1056 pàgines
...to rest their engines, and they moved this world at their pleasure." He quotes Dryden's Sebastian : Content you with monopolizing heaven, And let this...conscience there, And you, like Archimedes, toss the globe ! Such is Rome's Priesthood ; not a foot, but the whole of conscience, in its dominion of that world,... | |
 | 1843 - 522 pàgines
...to rest their engines, and they moved this world at their pleasure." He quotes Dryden's Sebastian : Content you with monopolizing heaven, And let this...little hanging ball alone: — For, give ye but a foot ofconscience there, And you, like Archimedes, toes the globe ! Such is Rome's Priesthood ; not a foot,... | |
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And let this little hanging ball alone ; For give you but a foot of conscience there, And you, like Archimedes, toss the globe. 
