 Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end be thine? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent? For why did Wolsey near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations...  The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the Author - Էջ 68Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 132 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1854 - 352 էջ
...be thine ! Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent 1 For, why did Wolsey near the steeps of fate, On weak...misfortune's blow, With louder ruin to the gulphs below I " The Vanity of Human Wishes. It may be interesting to some readers to have a specimen of the Valor,... | |
 | James Hannay - 1855 - 250 էջ
...safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent 1 For why did Wolsey, near the stoops of fate, On weak foundations raise th' enormous weight...beneath misfortune's blow, With louder ruin to the gulfs below? What gave great Villiers to the assassin's knife, And fixed disease on Harley's closing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 էջ
...Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end, be thine 1 Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent ? For why did...near the steeps of Fate, On weak foundations raise the enormous weight 1 Why but to sink beneath Misfortune's blow, With louder ruin, to the gulphs below... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 էջ
...On weak foundations raise the enormous weight 1 [Why but to sink beneath Misfortune's blow,_ _______ With louder ruin, to the gulphs below ! What gave...Villiers to the assassin's knife, And fix'd disease on Barley's closing life \ iso What murder'd Wentworth, and what exiled Hyde, By kings protected, and... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 էջ
...Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end be thine I Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest Justice on the banks of Trent { For why did Wolsey, near the steeps of fate, On week foundations raise the enormous weight? Why, but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With louder... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 264 էջ
...Shall Wolsey's wealth with Wolsey's end be thine ? Or livest thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent ? For why did...near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise the enormous weight ? Why but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With louder ruin to the gulf below.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1868 - 280 էջ
...Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end, be thine ? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent \ For why did...Misfortune's blow, ^ With louder ruin, to the gulphs below ! IvP-^ What gave great Villiers to th' assassin's knife, And fix'd disease on Harley's closing life... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 էջ
...Shall Wolsey's wealth with Wolsey's end be thine ? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent? For why did...near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise the enormous weight ? Why, but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With louder ruin to the gulfs below.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 էջ
...Shall Wolsey's wealth with Wolsey's end be thine ? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent ? For why did Wolsey, near the steeps of fate, On weak ioundations raise th' enormous weight ? Why, but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With louder ruin... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 էջ
...Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end, be thine? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent? For why did Wolsey near the steeps of fate 125 On weak foundations raise th' enormous weight ? Why, but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With... | |
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