 | John Bell - 1796
...the fire. Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize: The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r, The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. 46 But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sun-beams trembling on the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 79 pages
...fire. Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize : The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r, The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sun-beams trembling on the floating... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801
...honours he conferred on some of his friends; and we may, without straining the sense, call the half pair of gloves a gauntlet, the token of those military...ear, and granted half his pray'r, The rest, the winds dispers'd in empty air. In the first of these lines he gives him the treasury, and in the last suggests,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1801 - 1 pages
...the fire. Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize: The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r, The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sun-beams trembling on the floating... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 754 pages
...the fire. Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize. The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r ; The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. 46 But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sun-beams trembling on the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 408 pages
...fire. Then prostrate falls, and hegs with ardent eyes Soon to ohtain, and long possess the priae : The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r, The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, Tl,e sun-heams tremhling on the floating... | |
 | 1808
...the fire: Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes Sooa to obtain, and long possess the prize. The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r; The rest, the winds dispers'd in empty nir. But now secure tlic painted vessel glides, The sunbeams trembling on the floating... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812
...honours he conferred on some of his friends ; and we may, without straining the sense, call the half pair of gloves a gauntlet, the token of those military...possess. The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r t The rest, the winds dispers'd in empty air. In the first of these lines he gives him the treasury,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812
...the fire. Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize. The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r; The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. 4C But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sun-beams trembling on the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814
...honours he conferred on some of his friends; and we may, without straining the sense, call the half pair of gloves a gauntlet, the token of those military...said before, means the treasury, which he makes his prayers soon to obtain, and long to possess. The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r, The... | |
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Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize : The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r, The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. 
