I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check. Eminent English writers - Page 154by William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875Full view - About this book
| 1831
...streaming eyes, Which pour'd their warm drops on the sunny ground — So without shame I spoke — " I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in...I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannise Without reproach or check." — I then controlled My tears, my heart grew calm, and... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 500 pages
...and grating strife of tyrants und of foes. '•' And then I clasped my hands, and look'd around— But none was near to mock my streaming eyes, Which...I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannise Without reproach or check.' I then controlled My tears; my heart grew calm, and I was... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 512 pages
...harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes. " And then I clasped my hands, and look'd around — But none was near to mock my streaming eyes, Which...I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannise Without reproach or check.' I then controlled My tears ; my heart grew calm, and I... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...clasp* d my hands and look'd around — — But none was near to mock my streaming eyes. Which pour'd their warm drops on the sunny ground-— So without...will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me tics Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannise Without reproach... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...around — — But none was near to mock my streaming eyes Which pour'd their warm drops on the sunn; THE PAST. WILT thou forget the happy hour» Which...Blossoms and leaves, instead of mould I Blossoms which still tyrannize Without reproach or cheek." I then controll'd My tears, my heart grew calm, and I we»... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 pages
...clasp'd my hands, and look'd around — (but none was near to mock my streaming eyes, Which pour*d their warm drops on the sunny ground,) So without...I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check. I then controll'd My tears ; my heart grew calm ; and I... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 pages
...clasped my hands and looked around — But none was near to mock my streaming eyes, Which poured the warm drops on the sunny ground — So without shame,...I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize • Without reproach or check." I then controlled My tears, my heart grew calm, and... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 pages
...around— But none was near to mock my streaming eyes, Which poured the warm drops on the sunny groundSo without shame, I spake : — " I will be wise, And...I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize .Without reproach or check." I then controlled My tears, my heart grew calm, and I... | |
| Thomas Medwin - 1833 - 196 pages
...spot of the playground — generally alone — and where, he says, I formed these resolutions : To be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies...I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check. Tyranny generally produces tyranny in common minds — not... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Medwin - 1833 - 200 pages
...the playground — generally alone — and where, he says, I formed these resolutions : To be wire, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power,...I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check. Tyranny generally produces tyranny in common minds — not... | |
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