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" Each gift of nature, and each grace of art; With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows; Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath, And restless fire precipitates on death. "
Spain yesterday and to-day. By the author of 'Portugal'. - Page 4
by Spain - 1834 - 276 pages
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry, Volumes 5-6

John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 428 pages
...by vent'rous pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide ; "As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good; -...the fool's request. Fate wings with every wish th' affliclive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art ; With fatal heat impetuous courage glows,...
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The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the Author

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...by vent'rous pride, To tread the dreary paths without a guide ; As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good. How...Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art, With fatal heat impetuous...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 350 pages
...by vent'rous pride, To chase the dreary paths without a guide, As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good ;...Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, Eaeh gift of nature, and each grace of art; With fatal heat impetuous...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...betray'd by vent'rous pride To chase the dreary paths without a guide, As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good ;...Rules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant voice ; Jlow nations sink, by darling schemes oppress'd, When Vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...venturous pride. To tread the dreary paths without a guide ; As treacherous phantoms in the mist delnde, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good. How rarely...to the fool's request. Fate wings with every wish the' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art; With fatal heat impetuous courage...
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Works, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...by vent'rous pride, To chase the dreary paths without a guide, As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good ;...Rules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant voice j How nations sink, by darling schemes oppress'd, When vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...'* pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide ; As treach'rous phantom* in the mist del tide, de O'er realms of wide extent ; but here submtss B...EXTRACTS, Their homage pay, alternate kings and ?laves supplian voice : How nations sink by warlin" schemes opprest, When vengeance listens to the fool's...
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Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith ...

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...by vent'rous pride To chase the dreary paths without a guide, As treach'.-ous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good ;...suppliant voice ; How nations sink by darling schemes oppressM, When vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th1 afflictive dart,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...dreary path.- without a guide, As treach'rous phantoms iuthe mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chafes airy good ; How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Rules the bold baud, or prompts the suppliant voice ; How nations sink by darling schemes oppress'd, When vengeance...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...by venturous pride, To tread the dreary paths without a guide ; As treacherous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good. How...to the fool's request, Fate wings with every wish the' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art ; With fatal heat impetuous courage...
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