| William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 394 pages
...poetic images, the following lines of Mr Pope set them in a strong light : Thus all the land appear'd, in ages past, A dreary desert and a gloomy waste,...And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods. Cities laid... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...«railing on the plain«, And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in age« hree volumes of 'Miscellanies,' in which, e* claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and flood«, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...sits smiling on the plains, And peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reign*. Mot thin the land appear 'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts ami savage laws a preyr And k MIL'S more furious and severe than they; Who clairu'd the skies, dispeopled,... | |
| Philip Falle - 1837 - 548 pages
...the oppressor. Not thus theland appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert and a gloomy waste, Tosavage beasts and savage laws a prey, And Kings more furious and severe than they ; Whoclaim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods; The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods ; Cities... | |
| Philip Falle - Jersey - 1837 - 548 pages
...oppressor. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert ahd a gloomy waste, To savage-beasts and savage laws a prey, And Kings more furious and .severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods; The lonely lords of empty wild» and woods ; Cities laid... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - 1838 - 48 pages
...contrast afforded us in the present and the past; and may well exclaim, with Windsor's sweetest poet, " Not thus the land appeared in ages past, A dreary...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods— The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
| Thomas Miller - Great Britain - 1838 - 894 pages
...upon them through a thousand crevices, and announced the return of morning. c2 CHAPTER III. I'lms all the land appeared, in ages past, A dreary desert and...waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And Icings more furious and severe than they ; Who claimed the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...reign». Not thus the land appear'd in ages pa*t, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beast« NX claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid... | |
| Thomas Rossell Potter - Charnwood Forest (England) - 1842 - 380 pages
...in his poem on Windsor Forest : — " Thus all the land appear' d, in ages past, A dreary desert or a gloomy waste : To savage beasts and savage laws...And Kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods ; Cities laid... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...the plains, A.nd peace and plenty tell, a Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past. y desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage...prey, And kings more furious and severe than they; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities laid... | |
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