 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-lcgg'd thing, a son. i ;= uld not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble : 530 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...on the crowd, That kingly power, thus ebbing out, might be Drawn to the dregs of a democracy. . . . s like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu! the fancy ca : 145 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But... | |
 | John Dryden - 1923 - 196 pages
...grace ? These led the pack ; though not of surest scent, Yet deepest mouthed against the government. A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed Of the true old enthusiastic breed : 530 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1924 - 52 pages
...never is. The midwife placed her hand on his thick skull, With this prophetic blessing: Be thou dull. A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed, Of the true old enthusiastic breed. This is audacious and splendid; it belongs to satire besides which Marvell's Satires are random babbling;... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pages
...grace ? These led the pack ; though not of surest scent, Yet deepest mouthed against the government. 0Om[ 1@ Ւ 7 @^k0 < E9緱Ű & = r< - ' z 庚 ѵ ȈD <:u ` 8 q E ȍ H 6 W , p V power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathcred two-legg'd thing, a son. 1 70 and company 530 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...scent, Yet deepest mouthed against the government. A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed, 525 o q q@q pow'r imploy, Nothing to build, and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such,... | |
 | Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 pages
...English Men of Letters Series, p. 76. the Duke of Monmouth are these verses from Absalom and Achitophel : A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed Of the...enthusiastic breed : 'Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such... | |
 | English Association - 1924 - 156 pages
...years later, recites the rebel followers of Monmouth, who include the Puritan citizens of London : A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed Of the true old enthusiastic breed; — namely, of the ultra- Protestants, the parliamentarian fanatics, members of any strange nonconforming... | |
 | Margarita Stocker - 1922 - 162 pages
...is. The midwife placed her hand on his thick skull, With this prophetic blessing: Be tbou dull. . . . A numerous host of dreaming saints succeed, Of the true old enthusiastic breed. This is audacious and splendid ; it belongs to satire besides which Marvell's Satires are random babbling;... | |
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Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. These out of mere instinct, they knew not why, Adored their fathers... 
