 | Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 pages
...like the Lark I fprightly hail'd the morn ; Hut ah ! oppreffion forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My daughter — once the...! Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is caft abandon'd on the world's wide ftage, And doom'd in fcanty poverty to roam. My tender wife— fvveet... | |
 | Thomas Percival - 1781 - 330 pages
...like the lark Ifprightly hail'd the morn; But ah! oppreffion forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My daughter, once the comfort...of my age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Iscaft abandon'd on the world's wide ftage, And doom'd in fcanty poverty to roam. My tender uifc, Aveet... | |
 | G. Pearch, Robert Dodsley - 1783 - 346 pages
...ah ! oppreffion forc'd me from my cot, §\y cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My cfatrghter — once the comfort of my age ! Lur'd by a villain from her native home, J? caft abandon'd on the world's wide ftage, And doom'd in fcanty poverty to roam. Jly tender wife—... | |
 | 1787 - 430 pages
...reprcit. A little farm was my paternal lot, Then, like the lark, I fprightly hailed the morn, My cattle died, and blighted was my corn, My daughter, once the comfort of my age, Lur'd by a villain, left her native home, • Is now abandon'd on the world's wide ftage. And doom'd in fcanty poverty... | |
 | Prolusiones - 1788 - 210 pages
...the morn ; But ah ! oppreffion forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn ; IX. My daughter, once the comfort of my age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, VI. Si, bone, collibuit tantos audire labores, Humanae fortis tarn miferanda mala, Gutta memor noftri... | |
 | 1789 - 222 pages
...the lark, I sprightly hail'd the morn ; But ah ! oppression forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My daughter — once the...age ! Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is cast abandon'd on the world's wide stage, And doom'din scanty poverty to roam. My tender wife— sweet... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 416 pages
...ah ! oppression forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My daughter—once the comfort of my age ! Lur'd by a villain from her native home, My tender wife—sweet soother of my care ! Struck with sad anguish at the stern decree, Fell—ling'ring... | |
 | William Humphries - 1790 - 16 pages
...cafulâ fcelerata tyrannis, Heu periere grèges, percuiTœ uredine arifise. Cara 6 THE BEGGAR's PETITION. My daughter, once the comfort of my age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is caft abandon'd on the world's wide ftage, And dcorn'd in fcanty poverty to roam. My tender wife, fweet foother... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...like the Jark 1 Iprightly hail'd the morn -t But, ah ! opprellion forc'd me from my cot; My cattle abandon 'd on the world's wide liage, And doom d in fcanty poverty to coam. My tender wife, fv.cet... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...the laik, I Brightly liail'd the morn; But ah ! opprefiion foiv'd me from my cot ; My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My daughter, once the comfort...my age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is can abandon'd on the world's wide linge, And doom'd in fcanty poverty .to roam. My tender wife, fweet... | |
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Tis heav'n has brought me to the state you see; And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery. 
