 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1805 - 686 pages
...above poet ; and even his roloring scarcely exceeds the strong language of his prototypes. " Prond Nimrod first the bloody chase began ; A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. Our haughty Norman boasts that barb'rous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. 'I lie... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1805 - 698 pages
...by the above poet; and even his coloring scarcely exceeds the strong language of his prototypes. " Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began ; A mighty hunter, and his prey wai man. Our haughty Norman boasts that barb'rous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...reign ? Moth doom'd alike, for sportive tyrants bled, But while the subject starv'd, the beast was fed. Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our haughty Norman boasts that harharous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...Both doom'd alike for sportive tyrants bled, But, while the subject starv'd, the beast was fed. Prond Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our hanghty Norman boasts that barbarous name. And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...Both doom'd alike, for sportive tyrants bled, But while the subject starv'd, the beast was fed. frond Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our haughty Norman boasts that barbarous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...reign ? Both doom'd alike, for sportive tyrants bled; But while the subject starv'd, the beast was fed. Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our haughty Norman boasts that barb'rous name. And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. The... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...Both doom'd alike for sportive tyrants bled, But, while the subject starv'd, the lieast was fed. Prowl Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man : Our haughty Norman boasts that barbarous name. And maki!S his trembling slaves the royal game. The... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 510 pages
...traffic. The trading iu men was the staple commodity of the most early times, for, as the poet observes, ' Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.' These are noble sentiments, nobly expressed, and the more valuable, because they were uttered at a... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 506 pages
...traffic. The trading in men was the staple commodity of the most early times, for, as the poet observes, ' Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.' These are noble sentiments, nobly expressed, and the more valuable, because they were uttered at a... | |
 | Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...The trading in men was the staple1 commodity of the most early times, for, as the poet observes, « Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. These are noble sentiments, .nobly expressed, and the morevaluable, because they were uttered at a... | |
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Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man; Our haughty Norman boasts that barbarous name, And makes his trembling slaves the royal game. 
