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" ... mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good. How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Rules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant voice, How nations sink, by darling schemes oppress'd, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request.... "
Beispielsammlung zur Theorie und Literatur der schönen Wissenschaften - Page 195
by Eschenburg - 1788 - 448 pages
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From Milton to Tennyson: Masterpieces of English Poetry

Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 488 pages
...oppress'd, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, 15 Each gift of nature and each grace of art ; With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows, Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath, And restless fire precipitates...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 644 pages
...oppressed, When vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with every wish the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art;...With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows, Impeachment stops the speaker's powerful breath, And restless fire precipitates...
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 17

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 pages
...oppressed, When vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art,...With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows, Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath, And restless fire precipitates...
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The Public School Speaker

Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 pages
...bydarlingschemesoppressed ! When vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with every wish the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art,...With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows, Impeachment slops the speaker's powerful breath, ю And restless fire precipitates...
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The Fireside Encyclopedia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most ...

Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...oppress'd, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with every wish th' afflictive me. the shore For gladness, and the light Where birds of summer sing. To .\ WATERFOWL. WHITHKK, 'mid sweetness elocution flows, Impeachment stops the speaker's powerful breath, And restless fire precipitates...
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A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse

Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...oppressed, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, 15 Each gift of nature and each grace of art ; With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows, Impeachment stops the speaker's powerful breath, And restless fire precipitates...
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English Poetry (1170-1892).

John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...oppress'd, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, 15 Each gift of nature and each grace of art; With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows, Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath, And restless fire precipitates...
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A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse

Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 528 pages
...oppressed, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, 15 Each gift of nature and each grace of art ; With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows, Impeachment stops the speaker's powerful breath, And restless fire precipitates...
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English Poems: The Restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1800)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...oppressed, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, 15 Each gift of nature and each grace of art: With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows, Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath, And restless fire precipitates...
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English Poems: The restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1800)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...oppressed, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, 15 Each gift of nature and each grace of art: With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows, Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath, And restless fire precipitates...
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