Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still,... The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American ... - Página 316de Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 324 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...pleasures. War he sung his toil and trouble ; Honor but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, sound oh think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thec, Take the good the gods provide thec, The... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 páginas
...beginning, .-i '. ' i fighting still, and still -destroying: ;' if the world be worth thy wi nning, think, O think, it worth enjoying: lovely Thais sits...with loud .applause; so Love was crown'd, but Music man the cause. The prince, unable to conceal his pain, gaz'd on the fair who caus'd his care and sigh'd... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 páginas
...pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; honour but an empty bubble; never ending, still beginning, fighting still, and still destroying: if the world...lovely Thais sits beside thee, take the good the gods pro\>ide thee. The many rend the skies with loud applause; so Love was crown'd, but Music won the caus... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 páginas
...AIR. WITH FlUTEJ. War is toil and trouble, Honour is an airy bubble, Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If the world...think it, worth enjoying ^ Lovely Thais sits beside thec. Take the good the gods provide thce. RECITATIVE. The prince unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 páginas
...FUTTES, War is toil and trouble, Honour is an airy bubble, Never ending, still beginning, FL'hting still, and still destroying, If the world be worth thy winning, .Think, О think it, worth enjoying; I/>vely Thais sits beside thee, Take the ijood the gods piwide thee, RECITATIVE.... | |
| John Dryden - 1811 - 610 páginas
...length, with love and wine at once opprefs'd, The vanquinYd vidtor funk upon her breaft. 115 CHORUS. The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd his care, And figh'd and look'd, figh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and figh'd again : 120 At length, with love... | |
| John Dryden - 1811 - 612 páginas
...Honour, but an empty bubble ; 100 Never ending, ftill beginning, Fighting ftill, and ftill deftroying : If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying ; Lovely Thais fits befides thee, 105 Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the fkies with loud applaufe... | |
| John Dryden - 1811 - 616 páginas
...Honour, but an empty bubble ; 100 Never ending, ftill beginning, Fighting ftill, and ftill deftroying : If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais fits befides thee, 105 Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the fkies with loud applaufe... | |
| John Wolcot - 1812 - 540 páginas
...• " War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble : Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying." Cutting, killing, drowning, starving} Soldiers' Skins are well worth carving.... | |
| Peter Pindar - 1812 - 522 páginas
...• " War, he sang, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble: Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying." Cutting, killing, drowning, starving ; Soldiers' Skins are well worth... | |
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