 | Thomas Roscoe - 1838 - 48 pages
...sweetest poet, " Not thus the land appeared in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods— The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...reign». Not thus the land appear'd in ages pa*t, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beast« NX ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Thomas Rossell Potter - Charnwood Forest (England) - 1842 - 380 pages
...Forest : — " Thus all the land appear' d, in ages past, A dreary desert or a gloomy waste : To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And Kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods ; Cities... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...Forest : — " Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods. •... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they : Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods ; Cities... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...STUART reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws • a prey , And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred Maury - Forests and forestry - 1850 - 378 pages
...p. 249. ' « Not thug the lauil appear'd in ages past, A dreary deiert and gloomy waste , To savage beasts and savage laws a prey ; And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods , Th« lonely Ion Is of empty wilds and woods :... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...Brunswick reigns. Not thus the land appear d in ages past, A dreary desert and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws* a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they : Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 pages
...Stuart reigns. Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claim'd the skies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods : Cities... | |
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Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they... 
