 | T. S. Eliot - Literary Collections - 1997 - 146 pages
...magnificence, as in "Alexander's Feast": — Sooth 'd with the sound the king grew vain; Fought all his hattles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The great advantage of Dryden over Milton is that while the former is always in control of his ascent,... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...subject matter often being highly topical and the characters particular rather than universal. DRYDEN Soothed with the sound the king grew vain Fought all his battles o'er again (Alexander's Feasf) At a time when people were taking sides (Whig or Tory, Protestant or Catholic,... | |
 | John McRae - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 172 pages
...one with full hands How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. (xxiv) Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain, Fought all his battles o'er again. (xxv) They flee from me, that sometime did me seek. (xxvi) When Israel was in Egypt land, Let my people... | |
 | John Horgan - Medical - 2000 - 340 pages
...of Dryden's line about Alexander the Great refighting all his battles during a drunken monologue — And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain — life is just too short for occupying oneself with the slaying of the slain more than twice." Gould... | |
 | Dustin Griffin - History - 2005 - 332 pages
...heroics. Like Dryden's Alexander, who under the influence of drink and song "Fought all his Ban ails o'er again" ("And thrice He routed all his Foes; and thrice he slew the slain"),12 Goldsmith's homefront combatants "bravely become votaries for their country, and with true... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...Sweet is pleasure after pain. IV Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his batiks o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise,0 His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes;0 70 And while he heaven and... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 pages
...Sometimes the wit appears as a delicate flavour to the magnificence, as in "Alexander's Feast": Sooth'd with the sound the king grew vain; Fought all his...thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.23 elected a perch from which he cannot afford to fall, and from which he is in danger of slipping.... | |
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Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes,... 
