Great knaves of old their power have fenced, By places, pensions, bribes, dispensed; By these they gloried in success, And impudently dared oppress; By these despoticly they swayed, And slaves extolled the hand that paid; Nor parts, nor genius were employed, By these alone were realms destroyed.

The crowd, that still believe their kings oppress, With lifted hands their young Messiah bless: Who now begins his progress to ordain With chariots, horsemen, and a numerous train: 730 From east to west his glories he displays,

No more shall burning fever rage, No more shall pain oppress, But angel strains his tongue engage In hymns of righteousness.

Monsters of men as we are, dogs, wolves, tigers, fiends, incarnate devils, we do not only contend, oppress, and tyrannise ourselves, but as so many firebrands, we set on, and animate others: our whole life is a perpetual combat, a conflict, a set battle, a snarling fit.

The word has, properly, no relation to the use of force, and has no etymological connection with 'press' and its compounds, 'compress,' 'depress,' 'express,' 'oppress,' &c. 'Prest money is so-called from the French word prestthat is, readie money, for that it bindeth all those that have received it to be ready at all times appointed.'

shave *afición* f. fondness, liking; * a* fondness for *afiladura* f. sharpening *afilar* sharpen *afortunado* fortunate *África* f. Africa *agente* m. agent *agitación* f. agitation *agitar* agitate *aglomeración* f. heaping up *agobiar* oppress *agonía* f. agony

Athenians could be passably just, or at least not disastrously unjust, to Athenians; Spartans to Spartans; but Sparta must needs oppress the other cities of Laconia, while Athens was at best a fickle ally; and when Grecian liberty could be strong only in Grecian union, the common sentiment was bankrupted by too great a draft upon its resources.

They afford stimuli that oppress and worry the weakly, who complain and bewail, and it may be succumb to them, but which the energetic man welcomes with a good-humoured shrug, and is the better for in the end.

Stumbling on what I dare not guess, And wading through the gloom, Less deep the shades my eyes oppress, I see the awful tomb.