 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain, Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; [the slain. And thrice he routed all his foes ; and thrice he slew The master saw the madness rise... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 292 pages
...soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Sooth'd with the sound the King grew vain ; Fought all his...thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew The master saw the madness rise; [the slain. His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes : And while he heaven... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain : Fought all his...routed all his foes ; and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; ^jfAnd, while he Heav'n and... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure ; Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure, after pain. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his...; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he elew the slain. The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And while he... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...Sweet the pleasure after pain. Chor. Bacchus1 bletsings, &ci Sooth'd with the sound, the king grrw vain, Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice...routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And while he heav'n and earth... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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...routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And, while he heaven and earth... | |
 | Ebenezer Mack - Cats - 1824 - 292 pages
...to smooth the brow of disapprobation by figures and flourishes) in the present case — " Sooth'd by the sound, the king grew vain, Fought all his battles...routed all his foes, And thrice he slew the slain." Here the whole of this divine Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, by the immortal translator of Virgil's whole... | |
 | James Nichols - 1824 - 554 pages
...wish to imitate, even in imagination, the conduct of the Macedonian madman, of whom it is said, ,vt And thrice he routed all his foes, And thrice he slew the slain ! • • I have made no attempts to injure Mr. Scott's moral or religious character : I highly respect... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...pain. Sooth'd with the sonnd, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; [the slain. ly obey'd. The more they fed, they raven'd still for more master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And while he Heaven and earth defy'd,... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...the treasure ; Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure, after pain. Sooth'd with the sound, the kiqg grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And...thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew thoetein. The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeKs, his ardent eyes ; And while he heaven... | |
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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,... 
