 | 1789 - 228 pages
...more deep the gen'rous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. Has heaven reserv'd, in pity to the poor, No pathless waste or undiscover'd...secret island in the boundless main ? No peaceful desart yet unclaim'd by SPAIN ? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear oppression's insolence... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 428 pages
...courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways._ Of all the griefs that harrass the distress'd ; Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart, Tljan when a blockhead's insult points the dart. Has heaven reserv'd, in pity to the... | |
 | 1798 - 744 pages
...hundred years. This may be called prejudice, but it is a falutary prejudice ; and if it be true, that Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's intuit points the dart, no wife or good man would wilh to eradicate from the breaft a fcntiment by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...nation's happy fav'rites see ; " Mark whom the great caress, who frown on me." " Has heaven reserv'd, in pity to the poor, " No pathless waste, or undiscover'd...secret island in the boundless main ? " No peaceful desart yet unclaim'd by Spain ? " Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, " And bear Oppression's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...allowed me by my father, and hastened to France in my way homewards. BOSWELL. See ante, p. 474. ' ' Has heaven reserved, in pity to the poor, No pathless waste, or undiscovered shore? No secret island in the boundless main? No peaceful desert, yet unclaimed by Spain... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...time allowed me by my father, and hastened to France in my way homewards. BOSWELL. See ante, p. 474. ' Has heaven reserved, in pity to the poor, No pathless waste, or undiscovered shore ? No secret island in the boundless main ? No peaceful desert, yet unclaimed by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...courtiers gaze, And turn the various taunt a thousand ways. Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. Has Heav'n reserv'd, in pity to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pages
...And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways. ** Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure a most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. 15 Has Heaven reserv'd, in pity to... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pages
...more deep the gen'rous heart, " Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. " Has heav'n reserv'd, in pity to the poor, " No pathless waste, or undiscover'd shore ? . " No secret island on the boundless main ? " No peaceful desartyet unclaim'd by Spain? " Quick let us rise, the happy... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...courtiers gaae, And turn the vaiied tannt a thousand ways. Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never...Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. ' Has Heavea reserv'd, in pity to the poor, No pathless waste, or undiscover'd shore ? No secret island in... | |
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Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. 
