 | Robert Wallace - Population - 1809 - 352 pages
...then returned with pleasure to their rural employments, In ancient times, the sacred plough employ'd The kings, and awful fathers of mankind : And some, with whom compared, your insect-tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm... | |
 | James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 pages
...full height Of elegance and taste, by Greece refined, In ancient times, the sacred plough employ'd The kings and awful fathers of mankind : And some...compared your insect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day) Have held the scale of empire, rul'd the storm Of mighty war ; then, with unwearied... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...less reputation to themselves, than encouragement to the art : — In ancient times, the sacred plough employed The kings and awful fathers of mankind, And...compared your insect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Here held the scale of empire ; ruled the storm Of mighty war ; then, with unwearied... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 278 pages
...full height Of elegance and taste, by Greece refined. In ancient times, the sacred plough employ'd The kings, and awful fathers of mankind : And some, with whom compared your insect-tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...full height ()f elegance and taste, by Greece refined. In ancient times, the sacred plough employ'd The kings and awful fathers of mankind : And some, with whom compared your iiisect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1824 - 256 pages
...the full height Of elegance and taste, by Greece refined. In ancient times the sacred plough employ'd The kings, and awful fathers of mankind : And some, with whom compared your insect-tribes Are but the beings of a siimmer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1826 - 176 pages
...full height Of elegance and taste, by Greece refined. In ancient times^ the sacred plough employ'd The kings, and awful fathers of mankind : And some, with whom compared your insect tribes CO Are but the beings of a summer's day, ; Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 856 pages
...according to modern insectotogers, of the ichneumon-fly kind. Derhaia. In ancient times the sacred plough D O m^^ L C u 6a: 2X% x cR +"Y( ] T8 p`P - < MO &m inserí tribes Are but the beings of a Summer's day. Thornton. Man, who madly deems himself the lord... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...full height Of elegance and taste, by Greece refin'd. In ancient times, the sacred plough employ'd The kings, and awful fathers of mankind : And some, with whom compared your insect tribe*" Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, rul'd the storm Of mighty... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...Rome, in the full height Of elegance and taste, by Greece refined. In ancient times the sacred plough employed The kings and awful fathers of mankind: And some, with whom compared your insecttribe* Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of... | |
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In ancient times, the sacred plough employed The kings and awful fathers of mankind : And some, with whom compared your insect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day... 
