 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 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... | |
 | A. C. B. Brown - Latin language - 1910 - 274 pages
...oppress'd, 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... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...oppress'd, When vengeance listens to the fool's request. Pate 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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Authors, English - 1918 - 186 pages
...oppress'd,1 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Verse satire, English - 1927 - 68 pages
...opprefs'd, When Vengeance liftens to the Fool's Requeft. Fate wings with ev'ry Wifh th' afflictive Dart, Each Gift of Nature, and each Grace of Art,...With fatal Heat impetuous Courage glows, With fatal Sweetnefs Elocution flows, Impeachment ftops the Speaker's pow'rful Breath, And reftlefs Fire precipitates... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...oppressed, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, 15 sweetness elocution flows; Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath, And restless fire precipitates... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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... | |
 | Kristina Straub - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 260 pages
...evils; Johnson examines the nature of several passions. Fate wings with eve'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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 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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... 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.... 
