 | William Dunlap - Literary Criticism - 1836 - 232 pages
...Within my bosom dwells another lord—" Reason — " sole judge and umpire of itself." — Home. "Kought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, And thrice he slew the slain." — Dryden. IT would be " stale, flat, and unprofitable" to go into a detail of the boyish scenes which... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's...Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. IT. Sooth'd with the sound the king grew rain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed... | |
 | William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 512 pages
...death."—Shakspeare. " Within my bosom dwells another lord—" Reason—" sole judge and umpire of itself."—Home. " Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, And thrice he slew the slain."—Dryden. IT would be " stale, flat, and unprofitable" to go into a detail of the boyish scenes... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...hreath ; he comes, he Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus' hlessings are a treasure ; Drinking is the soldier's pleasure...treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after p-iin. Bacchus' hlessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...! he comes* ! Bacchus', ever fair and ever young', Drinking joys' . . did first ordain* : Bacchus' blessings' . . are a treasure* ; Drinking' . . is...madness rise* ; His glowing cheeks*, his ardent eyes* ; And', while he heaven and earth defied'. Changed his hand', and checked his pride*. He chose a mournful... | |
 | Law - 1919 - 674 pages
...described the effect upon Alexander and his " ast-embled peers in these words: — Soothed with th§ sound, the king grew vain, Fought all his battles...routed all his foes, And thrice he slew the slain. "cannot suppose that Parliament had never heard of this poem. " They must have known that people were... | |
 | M. H. Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 494 pages
...Alexander's Feast and another from Cymon and Iphigenia. The first is that in which the tipsy Alexander 'Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the skin.' Certainly, if the thing was to be done at all, this is the way to do it. The sudden irruption... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...chorus :— " Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain." After all this, " The king grew vain, Fought all his battles o'er again...madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And, while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...musician turns to praise of Bacchus, and the verse changes to the lilt of a drinking song: Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's...Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. One would have to go through the whole poem to demonstrate the different kinds of shading and the modulations... | |
 | Lawrence O. Koch - Social Science - 1988 - 356 pages
...of the music of Bird and Diz. CHAPTER XV MORE STRINGS Granz Productions (July-October 1950) Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his...routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. John Dryden — Alexander's Feast At the end of June 1950, as America entered the Korean conflict as... | |
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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,... 
