 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,...  The Beauties of English Poesy - Page 122by Oliver Goldsmith - 1767Full view - About this book
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Kooth'd wiih the sound, the king grew Tain ; e grinning mate replies, In this I grant that man is wise. While good j and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness ri« : His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 596 pages
...pleasure ! BOTH. Sweet is pleasure after pain ! RECITATIVE. Fir'd with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slcjiv the slain. The master saw the madness rise, His gloivini cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 612 pages
...•Sweet the pleafure, Sweet is pleafure after pain. 65 IV. Sooth'd with the found the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he...routed all his foes ; and thrice he flew the flain. Ver. 56. Bacchus' bleffings are a treafure, Rich the treafure, Sweet the pleafure, Sweet is pleafure... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 616 pages
...Sweet the pleafure, Sweet is pleafure after pain. 65 IV. Sooth'd with the found the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he...routed all his foes ; and thrice he flew the flain. Ver. 56. Bacchus' ble/ings are a treafvrc, Rick the treafure, Sweet the pleafure, Sweet is pleafure... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 610 pages
...Sweet the pleafure, Sweet is pleafure after pain. 61 IV. Sooth'd with the found the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes ; and thrice he flew the Ilain. Ver. 56. Bacchut' blejjings are a treafurt, Rich the treafure, Sweet the pleafure, Sweet is... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...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 ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And, while... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 782 pages
...confiftent with finite wifdom and , perfection. Cfjtjnt. 16, Manner of afting or performing, The mafter faw the madnefs rife; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And while he heav'n and earth dcfy'd, Chang'd his hand, and check'd his pride. DryJ, 17. Agency ; part in aftion. — God muft have... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 808 pages
...Jtin}<<uortti. * SLAIN. The participle paffive of slay. — The slain of the Lord (ball be many. Isa. l*vi. 16. And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he flew the slain. Drydtn. SLAINS, a parifti of Scotland, in Aberdeen{hire, on the coaft of Buchan, about s miles... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1831 - 952 pages
...like a gleaming meteor shone, And warring worlds had learned to fear. He, sternly frowning as he rose, Fought .all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, ' . And thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise, The hero's glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. . .•• •• ' Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again : And thrice he routed all his foes ; and thrice he slew the slain.— The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And while... | |
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