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" Caesars ? and the Grecian chiefs, The boast of story ? where the hot-brained youth, Who the tiara at his pleasure tore From kings of all the then discovered globe, And cried, forsooth, because his arm was hampered And had not room enough to do its work... "
Representative Authors of West Virginia - Page 88
by Warren Wood - 1926 - 322 pages
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...tiara at his pleasure tore From kings of nil the then discovered globe; And cried, forsooth, because always keep the Idea Of their civil rights associated with y ? Alas, how slim— dishonourably slim! And crammed into a space we blush to name I Proud royalty !...
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Debate on the evidences of Christianity, held between R. Owen and A ...

Robert Owen - 1839 - 556 pages
...still. Like Alexander the Great, when he had conquered the whole world, he wept, forsooth, because his arm was hampered and had not room enough to do its work. " What a misfortune ! Have I, indeed, no other world to conquer ? " Whence, then, this insatiable desire...
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A Guide to St. Helena: Descriptive and Historical, with a Visit to Longwood ...

Joseph Lockwood - 1851 - 166 pages
...tiara at his pleasure tore From kings of all the then discovered globe, And cried, forsooth, because his arm was hampered, And had not room enough to do its work ! ' Of glory unapproachable, what are now the sad remains j of power the end, with all its arms and...
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The British Millennial Harbinger

1857 - 592 pages
...philosophical fact than fable in the tradition, that the son of Philip and Olympias — Philip of Macedon — having conquered the world that then was, hung his...weeping that his arm was hampered and had not room to do its work, in a world so small as ours. Ambition reddens at this tale, and hangs its head in solemn...
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Popular Lectures and Addresses

Alexander Campbell - 1863 - 654 pages
...fact than of fable in ' the tradition that the son of Philip and Olympias — Alexander of Macedon — having conquered the world that then was, hung his...soul-subduing truth, is, that nothing but the infinite and the eternal can satisfy the cravings of an enlightened human soul. This thought — -fact may I...
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The Model Prayer: Being Ten Sermons on the Lord's Prayer

Thomas Lomas - 1865 - 212 pages
...tiara at his pleasure tore From kings of all the then discovered globe, And cried, forsooth, because his arm was hampered, And had not room enough to do its work ? Alas ! how slim!—dishonourably slim ! And crammed into a space we blush to name!" • Xerxes wept...
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The Book of English Elegies

W. F. March Phillipps - 1879 - 384 pages
...tiara at his pleasure tore From kings of all the then discovered globe, And cried, forsooth, because his arm was hampered And had not room enough to do its work ? Alas ! how slim, dishonourably slim, And crammed into a space we blush to name, Proud Royalty ! how...
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Living Thoughts in Words that Burn, from Poet, Sage and Humorist

Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 406 pages
...the tiara at his pleasure tore From kings of all then discovered globe; And cried, foresooth, because his arm was hampered, And had not room enough to do its work? Alas, how slim — dishonourably slim ! And crammed into a space we blush to name ! Proud royalty!...
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Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets,

George Eyre-Todd - 1896 - 256 pages
...tiara at his pleasure tore From kings of all the then discovered globe, And cried, forsooth, because his arm was hampered And had not room enough to do its work? Alas ! how slim, dishonourably slim, And crammed into a space we blush to name! Proud royalty! how...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 3

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 590 pages
...tiara at his pleasure tore From kings of all the then discovered globe ; And cried, forsooth, because his arm was hampered, And had not room enough to do its work ? — Alas ! how slim — dishonorably slim ; And crammed into a space we blush to name ! Proud royalty...
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