 Their virtue fails, a weak degenerate race. In vain malignant steams, and winter fogs Load the dull air, and hover round our coasts, The huntsman ever gay, robust, and bold, Defies the noxious vapour, and confides In this delightful exercise, to raise...  The Chace ; a Poem - Sida xviiefter William Somerville - 1804 - 105 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Bell - 1797 - 480 sidor
...Their virtue fails, a weak degen'rate race. In vain malignant steams and winter fogs Load the dnll air, and hover round our coasts ; The huntsman, ever...and bold, Defies the noxious vapour, and confides I00 In this delightful exercise to raise His drooping head, and cheer his heart with joy. Ye vig'rous... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 sidor
...gay, robud, and bold, Defies the noxious vapour, and confides lit this delightful exercife, to raife His drooping head, and cheer his heart with joy. Ye vigorous youths, by fmiling fortune bled* With large demcfnes, hereditary wealth, Heap'd copious by your wife forefathers... | |
 | William Somervile - 1802 - 316 sidor
...gay, robuft, and bold, Defies the noxious vapour, and confides In this delightful exercile to raife . His drooping head, and cheer his heart with joy. Ye vigorous youths, by fmiling fortune biell With large dernefntrs, hereditary wealth, Heap'd copious by your wife forefathers'... | |
 | William Somerville, Thomas Park - 1808 - 354 sidor
...climes Their virtue fails, a weak degenerate race. In vain malignant steams, and winter fogs Load the dull air, and hover round our coasts; The huntsman...In this delightful exercise, to raise His drooping herd, and cheer his heart with joy. Ye vigorous youths, by smiling fortune blest With large demesnes,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sidor
...and hover round our coasU; The huntsman; wer gay, robust, and bold. Defies the noxious vapor, a4id y vigor of a line Where Dcnham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writi jay. Yevig rous youths! by smiling Fortune blest With large demesnes, licreditary wealth, Heap'd copious... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 462 sidor
...climes Their virtue fails, a weak degenerate race. In vain malignant steams, and winter fogs . Load the dull air, and hover round our coasts; The huntsman...In this delightful exercise, to raise His drooping herd, and cheer his heart with joy. Ye vigorous youths, by smiling fortune bless'd With large demesnes,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 sidor
...degenerate race. In vain malignant steams and winter fogs Load the dull air, and hover round our coastt, torms of rage, and dangerous rocks of pride. Let thy strong hand this little vessel herd, and cheer his heart with joy. Ye vigorous youths, by smiling Fortune blest With large demesnes,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 sidor
...climes Their virtue fails, a weak degenerate race. In vain malignant steams and winter fogs Load the dull air, and hover round our coasts, The huntsman...In this delightful exercise, to raise His drooping herd, and cheer his heart with joy. Ye vigorous youths, by smiling Fortune blest With large demesnes,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 sidor
...war without its guilt. Somerville's Chase, b. 1. In vain malignant steams and winter fogs Load the dull air, and hover round our coasts ; The huntsman,...raise His drooping head, and cheer his heart with joy. Ibid. Once more, ye jovial train, your courage try, And each clean courser's speed. We scour along... | |
 | Thomas Burgeland Johnson - 1826 - 324 sidor
...malignant steams and winter fogs Load the dull air, and hover round our coasts, The huntsman, e»er gay, robust, and bold, Defies the noxious vapour,...His drooping head, and cheer his heart with joy." 4 I am inclined to think that many of our hunting terms at present in use may be traced to a Norman... | |
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