 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...cold ? And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended ? he, whose harvest : shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands Kv'n of the clown he feeds ;... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...cold ? and the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended ? he, whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds 1... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...cold. And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended ? he, whose toil. Patient, and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest ; shall he bleed. And, struggling, groan beneath the cruel hands Even of the clown he feeds... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1826 - 438 pages
...cold. And the plain ox, Thut harmless , honest , guileless animal , In what has he offended? he, whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands Ev'n of the clown he feeds? and... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...cold. And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended? he, whose toil, Patient, and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds ?... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...cold. And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended? he, whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds? and... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 pages
...cold ? And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has be offended ? he, whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest ; shall he bleed. ' (J And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 pages
...cold. And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended? he, whose toil, Patient, and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall he hleed. And struggling groan heneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds? and... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...cold ? And the plain 01, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended Î he, whose y, titles, wealth, and fame. How lov'd, how honor'd once, avails th harvest: shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands Ev'n of the clown he feeds ;... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...sufferer are sometimes the only resource he has left to make bis destitute case known. The plain ox, whose toil, Patient and ever ready , clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest, shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds? (Thomson.)... | |
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What have ye done; ye peaceful people, what, To merit death ? you, who have given us milk In luscious streams, and lent us your own coat Against the winter's cold? 
