 | Juvenal - Latin poetry - 1837 - 306 pages
...When statutesglean the refuse of the sword, How much more safe the vassal than the lord : Low skulks the hind beneath the rage of pow'r, And leaves the...traitor in the tow'r; Untouch'd his cottage, and his slumbers sound, 35 Though confiscation's vultures hover round. New fears in dire vicissitude invade,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...When statutes glean the refuse of the sword, How much more safe the vassal than the lord ; Low skulks the hind beneath the rage of pow'r, And leaves the...traitor in the tow'r, Untouch'd his cottage, and his slumbers sound, Though confiscation's vultures hover round. The needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...When statutes glean the refuse of the sword, How much more safe the vassal than the lord ; Low sculks the hind beneath the rage of pow'r, And leaves the...traitor in the Tow'r, Untouch'd his cottage, and his slumbers sound, Though confiscation's vultures hover round. The needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...When statutes glean the refuse of the sword, How much more safe the vassal than the lord ; Low sculks the hind beneath the rage of pow'r, And leaves the...traitor in the Tow'r, Untouch'd his cottage, and his slumbers sound, Though confiscation's vultures hover round. * * » « * * Yet still one general cry... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...the refuse of tho sword, How much more safe the vassal than tho lord; Low skulks tho land beneath tho rage of pow'r, And leaves the wealthy traitor in the tow'r, Untouch'd his cottage, and his slumbers sound, Though confiscation's vultures hover round. The needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks... | |
 | Bernard Burke - Family - 1863 - 518 pages
...the Farm was granted to Reginald Wapshot. " How much more safe the Vassal than the Lo.rd : Low skulks the hind beneath the rage of pow'r, And leaves the wealthy Traitor in the Tow'r : Untouched his cottage, and his slumbers sound, Though confiscation's vultures hover round." If some... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...When statutes glean the refuse of the sword, How much more safe the vassal than the lord ; Low sculks the hind beneath the rage of pow'r, And leaves the...traitor in the Tow'r, Untouch'd his cottage, and his slumbers sound, 35 Tho' confiscation's vultures hover round. The needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 76 pages
...When statutes glean the refuse of the sword, How much more safe the vassal than the lord. Low skulks the hind beneath the rage of pow'r, And leaves the...traitor in the Tow'r; Untouch'd his cottage, and his slumbers sound, 35 Tho' confiscation's vultures hover round. The needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...When statutes glean the refuse of the sword, How much more safe tho vassal than the lord ; Low skulks the hind beneath the rage of pow'r, And leaves the...traitor in the Tow'r, Untouch'd his cottage, and his slumbers sound, Tho' confiscation's vultures hover round. Tho needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1889 - 442 pages
...When statntes glean the refnse of the sword, How mnch more safe the vassal than the lord ; Low scnlks the hind beneath the rage of pow'r, And leaves the wealthy traitor in the Tow'r, Untonch'd his cottage, and his slnmbers sonnd, 35 Tho' confiscation's vnltnres hover ronnd. The needy... | |
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Low skulks the hind beneath the rage of pow'r, And leaves the wealthy traitor in the Tow'r, Untouch'd his cottage, and his slumbers sound, Tho' confiscation's vultures hover round. The needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks the wild heath, and sings his... 
