 | Marjorie Stone, Judith Thompson - 2007 - 392 páginas
...being married to an explorer, a writer, a man of knowledge and learning: He travels and expatriates; as the bee From flower to flower, so he from land to land, The manners, customs, policy of all, Pay contributions to the store he gleans; He seeks intelligence from every... | |
 | William Cowper - 1813 - 378 páginas
...mourn the pride And avarice, that make man a wolf to man ; Address to Winter. Hear the faint echoes of those brazen throats, By which he speaks the language...to flower, so he from land to land ; The manners, customs, policy, of all Pay contribution to the store he gleans ; He sucks intelligence in every clime,... | |
 | 1890 - 1252 páginas
...ere it reaches me : Grieves, but alarms me not. I mourn the pride And avarice, that make man a wolf to man : Hear the faint echo of those brazen throats,...heart, And sigh, but never tremble at the sound.' Now, we contend that, knowing what they do, our Friends ought ' to be alarmed,' ought ' to tremble... | |
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That liberates and exempts me from them all. It turns submitted to my view, turns round With all its generations ; I behold The tumult, and am still. The sound of war Has lost its terrors ere it reaches me ; Grieves, but alarms me not. 
