 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 strani
...concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the summit see The seals of office glitter in his eyes; He climbs, he pants,...Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dext'rous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn. Here rills of oily... | |
 | William Cowper - 1801 - 280 strani
...he pants, he grasps them! Athis-beels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dext'rous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose...eloquence in soft Meanders lubricate the course they take; The modest speaker is asham'd and griev'd T engross a moment's notice, and yet begs, Kegs a propitious... | |
 | 1801 - 452 strani
...concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the summit sec The seals of office glitter in his eyes; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them ! Athisbccls, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dextrous jerk soon twists him down,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - 350 strani
...concerns ? Here runs die mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition* On the summit see The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants,...Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dext'rous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them but to lose them in his turn. Here rills of oily... | |
 | 1802 - 302 strani
...concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the summit, see ! The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them ! At his heels, 60 Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down. And wins... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 strani
...concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge, That tempts ambition. On the summit see The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants,...eloquence in soft Meanders lubricate the course they take ; The modest speaker is ashamed and grieved To engross a moment's notice, and yet begs, Begs a propitious... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 strani
...•.••'•' Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the summit see The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants-,...his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, .-• . t 'And with a dexterous.jerk soon twists him dowa, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.?... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 338 strani
...That tempts Amhition. On the summit see The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; : o!T He climhs, he pants, he grasps them ! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, . -, i ' And with a dext'rous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, hut to lose them in his turn.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 strani
...climbs, he pants, he grasps 'them. At his Close at his beds, a demagogue nsceni's, And with a dexi'rous e ; Ou luiiricate the course they take : The modesi speaker is ashatn'd aji j grievM B eos IL '["•engross... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 strani
...concerns? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge, That tempts Ambition. On the summit see The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them 1 At his heels. Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dext'rous jerk soon twists him... | |
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Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts Ambition. On the summit see The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them ! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue... 
