 | John Gay - 1796 - 284 pages
...presage The virtues of a riper age. True courage shall your bosom fire, And future actions own your sire. Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. A TYGER roaming for his prey, Sprung on a TRAV'LER in the way; The prostrate game a LION spies, And... | |
 | John Gay, Thomas Park - 1808 - 322 pages
...presage The virtues of a riper age. True courage shall your bosom lire, And future actions own your sire. Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. A Tiger, roaming for his prey, • ' Sprung on a Traveller in the way ; The prostrate game a Lion spies,... | |
 | Christopher Anstey, John Anstey - 1808 - 600 pages
...presage The virtues of a riper age; True courage shall your bosom fire, And future actions own your Sire. Cowards are cruel; but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. A Tyger, roaming for his prey, Sprung on a Trav'ller in the way ; The prostrate game a Lion spies,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...presage The virtues of a ri|>erage. True courage shall your bosom fire, And future actions own your sire. f sensual, mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts to Man's im A Tiger, roaming for his prey, Sprung on a Trav'llcr in the way ; 'I he prostrate game a Lion spies,... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 508 pages
...1343. It appears that James I. was remarkably fond of Cock-fighting ; is it impertinent to add ? " Cowards are cruel, but the Brave " Love mercy, and delight to save." f * Historia Histrionics. manely destroyed for the Sport and Pleasure (amid Noise and Nonsense, blended... | |
 | John Carey - 1816 - 300 pages
...Oppression's iron sway. 7, He now feels wants unknown before, Wants still increasing with his store. g Cowards are cruel : but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save, 9 The spring, that gave her blossoms birth, Tore them for ever from the earth. 10 The noble palms of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1816 - 600 pages
...unhallowed hands, whilst prisoners, unarmed and incapable of defence. It has been said, and truly said, that cowards are cruel ; but the brave love mercy and delight to save. We will not forget those brave men, but on the mli April will remember them. NEPTUNE." PROCEEDINGS... | |
 | John Gay - 1816 - 174 pages
...presage The virtues of a riper age. True courage shall your bosom fire, And future actions own your sire. Cowards are cruel ; but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. A Tiger, roaming for his prey, Sprung on a .Traveller in the way : The prostrate game a Lion spies,... | |
 | James Beattie - 1817 - 434 pages
...by force : when he submits, he is entitled to mercy, and even to the generosity of the conqueror. ' Cowards are cruel, but the brave love ' mercy, and delight to save.' 368. There are many occasions, on which anger is not to be blamed ; there are many on which it is praiseworthy.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 pages
...presage The virtues of a riper age. True courage shall your bosom fire, And future actions own your sire. Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. A Tiger, roaming for his prey, Sprung on a Traveller in the way ; The prostrate game a Lion spies,... | |
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And pant already to redress. Go on, the height of good attain, Nor let a nation hope in vain: For hence we justly may presage The virtues of a riper age. 
