 Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession of the...  English Satires - Seite 51herausgegeben von - 1899 - 298 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 344 Seiten
...your steady hand beguile ; Yourself our balance hold, the world's, our isle. 232 MAC FLECKNOE.* ALL human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons,...young Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long ; I In prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute, 5 # This is one of the best, as well as severest... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...his greater laureate ; so that Dryden had every provocation against him, political and poetical. All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey ; This Flecnoe found, who, like Augustus, young, Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long : In prose and... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 Seiten
...majesty divine, Does he regard on what we dine ? SWIFT. — Epigram, from the French. FATE. — All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. DETDEN. — Mac Flecknoe, Line 1. With equal pace, impartial fate Knocks at the palace as the cottage... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 346 Seiten
...balance hold, the world's, our isle. * Aristides. See his life in Plutarch. Orig. ed. MAC FLECKNOE.* ALL human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons,...; In prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute, * This is one of the best, as well as severest satires, ever produced in our language. Mr. Thomas Shadwell... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 Seiten
...fears your steady hand beguile ; Yourself our balance hold, the world's, our isle. MAC FLECKNOE.* ALL human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons,...young Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long; •JTu prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute, e * This is one of the best, as well as severest... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 Seiten
...Johnson alludes to the introduction of the nunefl, which are described io the most offensive language, s, and never mends his pace. Of all the vows, the first and chief request * govcni'd long ; In prose find verse, was owajd^. without dispute, 6 Through all the realms of^onsjaise^absolutocr... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...force fate to change her mind ; He that courts fortune boldly, makes her kind. Di-yden,Ind. Q. All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must Q\iej.Il.F/ecknoe,\. Whatever is, is in its causes just, Since all things are by fate ; but purblind... | |
 | John Dryden - 1869 - 576 Seiten
...upon, hy Flecknoe, to succeed him in th*1 throne of dulness ; for Flecknoe was never poet-laureat.] ALL human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons,...realms of Nonsense, absolute. This aged prince, now nourishing in peace, And bless'd with issue of a large increase ; Worn out with business, did at length... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 Seiten
...become almost proverbial. Shadwell is represented as the adopted son of this venerable monarch, who so long " In prose and verse was own'd without dispute Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute." The solemn inauguration of Shadwell as his successor in this drowsy kingdom, forms the plan of the... | |
 | 1871 - 930 Seiten
...a " dainty dish " to set before Laureate Shadwell at his breakfast table. These are they : — All human things are subject to decay ; And when fate...empire, and had govern'd long : In prose and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of nonsense absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing... | |
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