 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...with a purple grace, He shews his honest face. Now give the hauthoys breath. He comes ! he comes ! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first...Sweet the pleasure; Sweet is pleasure after pain. CHORDS. " Bacchus' blessings are a treasure; " Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : " Rich the treasure,... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...'d with a purple grace, He shews his honest face. Now give the hauthoys breath. Hecomes! he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first...pleasure after pain.' CHORUS. " Bacchus' blessings are a treasoia ; . " Drinking is the soldier's pl«asuie: . . " Rich the treasure, " Sweet the pleasure ;... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...sing the jovial god of wine, he very judiciously changes the measure into the brisk trochaic. Bdcchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain....Sweet the pleasure». Sweet is pleasure after pain. Again, when he describes his hero as wrought up to madness, and setting fire to the city in a fit of... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 566 pages
...measure also is contrasted, and the poet now assumes the brisk trochaic. " Bacchus, ever fair and ever young-, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus'...Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain." This social scene is happily contrasted with the melancholy fate of Darius, and both the sentiments... | |
 | David Humphreys - United States - 1804 - 440 pages
...'d with a purple grace, He shows his honest face. Now give the hautboys breath. He comes, he comes! Bacchus ! ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first...Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. > ^ iv. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain, Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...comes, he comes! Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus' hlessings arc a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich...with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his hattles o'er again : And thrice he routed all his foes ; and thrice he sle* the >lain. — The master... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...he comes, he comesj Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus' blessing are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure...Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. 4Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain : Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face. Now give the hauthoys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first...Sweet the pleasure; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his hattles o'er again: And thrice be routed... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...hautboys breath; he comes, he comes, Bacchus ever fair and young Drinking joys did first ordain. Bacchus's blessings are a treasure ; Drinking is the soldier's...pleasure after pain. Chorus : Bacchus' blessings, etc. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...breath. He cones 1 he Bacchus, ever fair and young, . [cumes t Drinking joys did first obtain ; Ba;chus' blessings are a treasure ; Drinking is the soldier's...treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pam. , CHORUS. " Bacchus' blessings are a treasure ; " " Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : " Rich... | |
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Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath ; he comes, he comes. Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus... 
