 | 1776 - 632 pagina’s
...wood, What wonder, if to patient valour train'd They guard with ipirk, what by Itrength they gain'd î And while their rocky ramparts round they fee, The rough abode of want end liberty, (As lawlefs force from confidence will grow) Infult the plenty of the vales below f What... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 456 pagina’s
...rufhing from the wood, What wonder if to patient valour train'd, They guard with fpirit, what by ftrength they gain'd ? And while their rocky ramparts round...liberty, (As lawlefs force from confidence will grow) Infult the plenty of the vales below ? What wonder, in the fultry climes, that fpread Where Nile redundant... | |
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For where unwearied finews muft be found With fide-long plough to quell the flinty ground, To turn the torrent's fwift-defcending flood, To brave the favage rufhing from the wood, What wonder if to patient valour train'd, They guard with fpirit, what... 