 | 1847 - Počet stránok 540
...shaking knees against each other knock'd — On the cold pavement down I fell entranc'd, DRYDEN. 12. The wretch that fears to drown, will break thro' flames...will plunge in waves. When eagles are in view, the screaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety. GIBBER. 13. Imagination frames events... | |
 | 1847 - Počet stránok 526
...shaking' knees against each other knock'd — On the cold pavement down I fell entranc'd, DRYDEN. 12. The wretch that fears to drown, will break thro' flames...will plunge in waves. When eagles are in view, the screaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety. GIBBER. 13. Imagination frames events... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - Počet stránok 772
...greater than his haste; For fear, though fleeter than the wind, Believes 'tis always left behind. Butler. The wretch that fears to drown, will break thro' flames...will plunge in w-aves. When eagles are in view, the screaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety. Ci'Mti: Thou, to whom the world unknown,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - Počet stránok 610
...unmanly, loosens every power. Thomson's Seaiuns The wreteh that fears to drown, will break through flames; Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves When eagles are in view, the sereaming doves Will eower beneath the feet of man for safety. Cibber's Ceesar in Egypt In eaeh low... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - Počet stránok 752
...fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, And horror heavy sat on every mind. Dryden, Thco. and Hon. The wretch that fears to drown, will break thro' flames,...will plunge in waves ; When eagles are in view the screaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety. Cibber,Ccesar. Desponding fear, of feeble... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - Počet stránok 524
...My shaking knees against each other knock'd — On the cold pavement down I fell entranc'd, DRYDEN. The wretch that fears to drown, will break thro' flames...will plunge in waves. When eagles are in view, the screaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety. GIBBER, Imagination frames events unknown,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - Počet stránok 738
...fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, And horror heavy sat on every mind. Dryden, Thco. and Hun. The wretch that fears to drown, will break thro' flames,...will plunge in waves ; When eagles are in view the sereaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety. C'Mer, Caesar. Desponding fear, of feeble... | |
 | Edwards Amasa Park - 1902 - Počet stránok 376
...life? — act for his Master or else for himself. "The man that fears to drown, will break through flames; Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves. When eagles are in view, the screaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety." — Cibber. At the upper end of the... | |
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The wretch that fears to drown, will break thro' flames ; Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves. When eagles are in view, the screaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety. 