 | 1847 - 540 pages
...blockheads and men of letters, Enjoy a cannonade upon their betters. DR. WOLCOT'S Peter Pindar. 17. A crown ! what is it ? It is to bear the miseries...discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care ! HANNAH MORE. 18. Ill do you know the spectral forms that wait Upon a king : care with his furrow'd... | |
 | Hannah More - 1852 - 582 pages
...'Tis well the robe of majesty is gay, Or who would put it on ? A crown ! what is it ? It is to hear the miseries of a people ! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a loud of splendid care! To have your best success ascrib'd to Fortune, And Fortune's failures all ascrib'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 426 pages
...Did the peace long continue ? 25. What was the consequence ? SECTION VI. A crown ? what is it ? It IB to bear the miseries of a people ! To hear their murmurs,...ascribed to you ! It is to sit upon a joyless height, Tn every blast of changing fate exposed ! Too high for hope ! too great for happiness ! — H. More.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...head that wears a crown. Pope. Her who fairest does appear, Crown her queen of all the year. Dry den. A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of...discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care. Hannah More. CEUELTY. LET me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none; My... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...give infamy renown. A CROWN. A crown! What is it? To hear their murmurs, feel their discontent, To sink beneath a load of splendid care ! To have your...failures all ascribed to you ! It is to sit upon a joyous height, To every blast of changing fate exposed ! Too high for hope ! too great for happiness... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...to the whisper'd vows Of those who eurse him. Joanna Baillie's Ethwoid. A erown ! what is it ? Is it to bear the miseries of a people ! To hear their murmurs, feel their diseontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid eare ! To have your best sueeess aseribed to fortune,... | |
 | Hannah More - 1856 - 578 pages
...Direct me ? O, unhappy state of kings ! 'Tis well the robe of majesty is gay, Or who would put it on i A crown ! what is it ? It is to bear the miseries...load of splendid care ! To have your best success ascrib'd to Fortune, And Fortune's failures all ascrib'd to you ! It is to sit upon a joyless height.... | |
 | Hannah More - 1856 - 630 pages
...Direct me ? O, unhappy state of kings! 'Tis well the robe of majesty is gay, Or who would put it on 7 A crown ! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of...murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a loud of splendid care! To have your best success ascrib'd to Fortune, And Fortune's failures all ascrib'd... | |
 | R H. Copperthwaite - 1865 - 354 pages
...some respects, to the description I once read of a crown, — " 'Tis to bear the miseries of a people, Hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of care ; Have your best success ascribed to fortune, Fortune's failings all ascribed to you." It is to... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...left me a lone blighted thorny stalk, Which, in its solitude can shelter nothing. Byron,Dogc, in.2. A crown ! what is it ? It is to bear the miseries...ascribed to you ! It is to sit upon a joyless height, To ev'ry blast of changing fate expos'd ! Too high for hope ! too great for happiness ! KINGS — continued.... | |
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A crown ! What is it ? It is to bear the miseries of a people ! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care ! To have your best success... 
