 List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...  The American Whig Review - Seite 181852Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 Seiten
...were made a prelate. Let him but talk of any state-affair, You'd say it had been all in all his study. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, stands still — but, ere you have time to answer him,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 Seiten
...were made a prelate. Let him but talk of any state-affair, You'd say it had been all in all his study. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, stands still — but, ere you have time to answer him,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 Seiten
...were made a prelate. Let him but talk of any state-affair, You'd say it had been all in all his study. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, stands still — but, ere you have time to answer him,... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 Seiten
...perfect horn-book for the use of the minister, and the instruction of rising politicians. LORD ERSKINE. " Turn him to any cause of policy, The gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter." " Whenhe speaks, the air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 Seiten
...DIXitN's, 19, Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR or THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT PEEL. " Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter." SUAKSTEARE. FOLJ.OWING up the intention expressed in our last number, we have selected for the subject... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 602 Seiten
...his study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in musick : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, 9 Never came reformation in a fiood,] Alluding to the method by which Hercules... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 996 Seiten
...his study : List bis discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rcnder'd you in musick : no l * Fumnar aa his garter ; that, when he speaks, Toe air, a cbartcr'd libertine, is still, Aad the mute... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 Seiten
...been all in all his study. List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music. Turn him to any cause of policy, The...knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still ; And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,... | |
 | Charles Chadwicke Jones - 1828 - 458 Seiten
...been all in all his study: List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The...knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 Seiten
...all-in-all his study : i J.ist' his disco'urse of war, and you shall hear Л fearful battle rcndcr'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The...knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, The air, a chartert! libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurkctn in men's... | |
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