 So moves the sumpter-mule, in harness'd pride, That bears the treasure which he cannot taste. For him let venal bards disgrace the bay, And hireling minstrels wake the tinkling string ; Her sensual snares let faithless Pleasure...  the monthly review - Page 500by Several Hands - 1774Full view - About this book
 | 1776 - 632 pages
...profution's froth j And pale Difeate, with all hi"- bloated u.un, Torments the fonsof gluttony and floth. In Fortune's car behold that minion ride, With either India's glittering fpoils opprefs'dj So moves the fumpter mule in harnefs'd pride, That bears the treafure which he cannot tafte... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English drama - 1777 - 336 pages
...Profeffion's froth; And pale Difeafe, with all his bloated train, Torments the fons of Gluttony and Sloth. STROPHE. In Fortune's car behold that minion ride,...harnefs'd pride, That bears the treafure which he cannot tafle. For him let venal bards difgrace the bay, And hireling minftrels wake the tinkling firing ;... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English drama - 1777 - 330 pages
...Gluttony and Sloth. STROPHE. •.:. :.:-. -. In Fortune's car behold that minion ride, •K-.- :--: With either India's glittering fpoils oppreft ; So...That bears the treafure which he cannot tafte.. For hipn let venal bards difgrace the bay, And hireling minftrels wake the tinkling firing ; . • Her... | |
 | English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...profeflion's froth, And pale Difeafe, with all his blafted train, Torments the forts of Gluttony and Sloth. STROPHE. In Fortune's car behold that minion ride, With either India's glittering fpoils opprefs'd : So moves the fumpter-mule, in harnefs'd pride, That bears the treafure which he cannot... | |
 | G. Pearch, Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1783 - 346 pages
...profeffions froth, And pale Difeafe with all his bloated train Torments the fons of Gluttony and Sloth; STROPHE. In Fortune's car behold that minion ride,...the bay, And hireling minftrels wake the tinkling firing ; Her feniual fnares let faithlefs Pleafure lay, And all her gingling bells fantaftic Polly... | |
 | English poetry - 1790 - 194 pages
...professions froth, And pale Disease witli all his bloated train Torments the sons of Gluttony and Sloth. STROPHE. In Fortune's car behold that minion ride, With either India's glittering spoils opprest : So moves the sumpter-mule, in harness'd pride, That bears the treasure which he cannot... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 526 pages
...falfehood, pert and vain, Prefents her cup of dale profeffion's froth ; 90, And pale difeafe, with all Tiis bloated train, Torments the fons of gluttony and floth....minion ride, With either India's glittering fpoils opprefs'd : So moves the fumpter-mule, in harnefs'd pride, That bears the treafure which he cannot... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 590 pages
...Fortune, who would impofe upon mankind by the oftentation of wealth, and the parade of page, antry. In fortune's car behold that minion ride, With either India's glittering fpoils oppreft: So moves the fumpter-mu!e in harnefs'd pride, That hears the treafure which he cannot taile. For him let venal bards... | |
 | Mary Darby Robinson - English fiction - 1799 - 348 pages
...approach his perfon, and feldom fees his wife in the whole routine of the four-and-twenty hours. " So moves the fumpter-mule in harnefs'd pride, " That bears the treafure which he cannot tafte*!" * Smollet's " Ode to Independence." I have already obferved that the inhabitants of this place are... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...profefiion's froth ; And pale DISEASE, with all his bloated train, Torments the fons of GLUTTONY and SLOTH. In fortune's car, behold that minion ride, With either...venal bards difgrace the bay, And hireling minftrels v.ake the tinklmg firing; Her fcnfual fnares let faith'efs pleafure lay; And jingling bells fantaftic... | |
| |
