 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
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 310 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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 320 pages
...clasp'd ray 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 shame I spake — T will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power : for I grow weary to behold... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 508 pages
...one echo from a world of woes — The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes. rv. did pass. So without shame, I spake : — " I will be wise,...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 was... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 608 pages
...abhorrence of tyranny and injustice. In his childhood, even, he tells us he formed 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." In his novel of " Lastrozzi," a very wonderful work for... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 614 pages
...abhorrence of tyranny and injustice. In his childhood, even, he tells us he formed resolutions " To be wise And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies...power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the mrong still tyrannize Without reproach or check." In his novel of " Lastrozzi," a very wonderful work... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1855
...abhorrence of tyranny and injustice. In his childhood, even, he tells us he formed resolutions— " To be wise And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold j The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check." In his novel of " Lastrozzi,"... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1856 - 324 pages
...harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes. And then I clasped my hands, and looked around — (But none was near to mock my streaming eyes, Which...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... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...strife of tyrants and of foes. And then I clasped my hands and looked around, — But none was there to mock my streaming eyes, Which poured their warm...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... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856 - 596 pages
...tyrants and of foei. " And then I clasped my hands, and looked around — But none was near to mark my streaming eyes, Which poured their warm drops on the sunny ground. So without shame I spoke, ' I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power; for I grow weary to... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 pages
...foe*. And then I clasped my hands and looked around— But none was near to mock mr streaming eye*, Which poured their warm drops on the sunny ground— So without shame I spake: — " I will he wLse, And just, and free, and mUd, If In me lle« 8uch power, fur I grow weary to behold The selrlih... | |
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