 | Collection - 1758 - 358 lehte
...and made gives light : While infefts from the threfhold preach, And minds difpos'd to mufing teach : Proud of ftrong limbs and painted hues, They perifh...more flow life's frail machine ; From maggot-youth thro' change of flate They feel like us the turns of Fate ; Some born to creep have liv'd to fly, And... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 416 lehte
...and fhade gives light : While infects from the threfhold preach, And minds difpos'd to mufing teach : Proud of ftrong limbs and painted hues, They perifh...frail machine ; From maggot-youth through change of flat* They feel like us the turns of Fate ; Some born to creep have liv'd to fly, And change earth-cells... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 412 lehte
...preach*' And minds difpos'd to mufing teach : Proud of ftrong limbs and painted hues, They perifti by the flighteft bruife ; Or maladies begun within,...frail machine ; From maggot-youth through change of flats They feel like us the turns of Fate ; Some born to creep have liv'd to fly, And change earth-cells... | |
 | Collection - 1766 - 354 lehte
...and made gives light: While infefts from the threfhold preach. And minds difpos'd to muting teach : Proud of ftrong limbs and painted hues, They perifh...like us the turns of Fate ; Some born to creep have liv'd to fly, And change earth-cells for dwellings high ; VOL. V. L And And fome that did their fix... | |
 | 1782 - 382 lehte
...hues, They perifh by the ftighteft bruife ; Or maladies, begun within, Deftroy more flow life's frllil machine ; From maggot-youth through change of ftate...like us the turns of Fate ; Some born to creep have liv'd to flv, And change earth-cells for dwellings high ; And fome that did their fix wings keep, Before... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 lehte
...five; there bc:.n<; the buils of Newton, Locke, Boyle. Or miladies, begun within, Dtftroy more How life's frail machine; From maggot-youth through change...like us the turns of Fate; Some born to creep have li,v'd to fty, And change earth-cclK for dwellings high ; And Come that did their fix wings keep, Before... | |
 | Matthew Green - 1796 - 148 lehte
...author fhould have faid five ; there being the bufts of Newton, Locke, Wollafton, Clarke, and Boyle. I Proud of ftrong limbs and painted hues, They perifh...like us the turns of Fate ; Some born to creep have liv'd to fly, And change earth-cells for dwellings high ; And fome that did their fix wings keep, Before... | |
 | Matthew Green - 1796 - 142 lehte
...Wollafton, Clarke, and Boyle. I Proud of ftrong limbs and painted hues, They perifh by the flighted bruife; Or maladies, begun within, Deftroy more flow...like us the turns of Fate ; Some born to creep have liv'd to fly, And change earth-cells for dwellings high; And fome that did their fix wings keep, Before... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 lehte
...maladies, begun within, Destroy more slow life's frail machine; From maggot-youth through change of state, A4 ) ) liv'd to fly, And change earth-cells for dwellings high ; And some that did their six wings keep, Before... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 lehte
...maladies begun within Destroy more slow life's frail machine : From maggot-youth, thro' change of state, They feel like us the turns of fate : Some born to creep have liv'd to fly, And chang'd earth's ceils for dwellings high : And some that did their six wings keep,... | |
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Before they died, been forced to creep. They politics, like ours, profess : The greater prey upon the less. Some strain on foot huge loads to bring, Some toil incessant on the wing... 
