 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, 1S And here the fell attorney prowls for prey ; Here...that contains Of dissipated wealth the small remains, 2O On Thames's banks in silent thought we stood, Where Greenwich smiles upon the silver flood : Struck... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...spares, with age decay : Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire ; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here...talks you dead. While Thales waits the wherry that contain? Of dissipated wealth the small remains, On Thames's banks, in silent thought we stood Where... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...spores, with age decay : Hero malice, rapine, accident conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire ; wakes, The only throb she gives Is when some heart...Tliomas Moore. — Born 1780, Died 1852. 1286.— SONG. Thaïes waits the wherry that contains Of dissipated wealth the small remains, On Thames' s banks,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...charge is prepared, the lawyers are fnet, The judges all ranged ; a terrible show ! GAY: Beggar's Opera. Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey. DR. S. JOHNSON: London. Men of your large profession that could speak To every cause, and things mere... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1876 - 288 pages
...spares with age decay : Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here...your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead. Samuel Johnson. LONDON. ' A MIGHTY mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, A- Dirty and dusky, but... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...charge is prepared, the lawyers are met, The judges all ranged ; a terrible show ! GAY: Beggar's Opera. Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey. DR. S. JOHNSON: London. Men of your large profession that could speak To every cause, and things mere... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pages
...rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffiuis lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your iicad, And here a female atheist talks yon dead. LONDON. Samuel Johnson. A MIGHTY mass of brick, and... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...he had rather LONDON. Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire ; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here...your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead. Dr. Johnsoa, Lund. London ! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Bome... | |
 | Statistics - 1881 - 944 pages
...spares, with age decay. Sere malice, rapine, accident conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire ; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here...your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead." The early dramatists are full of such allusions to the dangers of the town. Dr. Fair made an abstract... | |
 | Cornelius Walford - Mortality - 1881 - 126 pages
...spares, with age decay. ILere malice, rapine, accident conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire ; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here...your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead." The early dramatists are full of such allusions to the dangers of the town. Dr. Farr made an abstract... | |
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Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead. 
