 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 - Página 120por Oliver Goldsmith - 1767Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 504 páginas
...; 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, and thrice he slew the slain ! The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ! He chose a... | |
 | William Dunlap - 1836
...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... | |
 | William Dunlap - 1837
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837
...Sweet is pleasure after pain. 1T. 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 master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And, while... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - 1979 - 330 páginas
...from Cymon and Iphigenia. The first is that in which the tipsy Alexander ' Fought all his Battalls o'er again; And thrice He routed all his Foes; And thrice He slew the slain'.1 Certainly, if the thing was to be done at all, this is the way to do it. The sudden... | |
 | Samuel Ireland - 1796 - 153 páginas
...rhetoric? Did Dryden copy from either of thefe poets, when he exclaims in his ode to St. Cecilia, " And thrice he routed all his foes, " And thrice he flew the flain." This is furely a fpecies of criticifm, which is founded on principles, fo vague, and indefinite, that... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881
...treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain." After all this, " 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 he... | |
 | Lawrence O. Koch - 1988 - 336 páginas
...CHAPTER XV MORE STRINGS Granz Productions (July-October 1950) 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. John Dryden — Alexander's Feast At the end of June 1950, as America entered the Korean... | |
 | David M. Nelson - 1994 - 599 páginas
...changing. Fourth Quarter Grass Basketball and a Safer Game 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. — John Dryden, Alexander's Feast 17 John Waldorf's Era, 1968-1975 NCAA Football Rules... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 584 páginas
...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, and thrice he slew the slain. All, all of a piece throughout: Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing... | |
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