 Gaze on thy ruines, and amazed stand, They shake their spleenful heads, disdain, deride The sudden downfal of so fair a pride, They clap their joyful hands, and fill their tongues With hisses, ballads, and with lyrick songs : Her torments give their empty...  Letters from the Nile - Page 69by John William Clayton - 1854 - 110 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 402 pages
...pride, They clap their joyful hands, and fill their tongues With hisses, ballads, and with lyric songs : Her torments give their empty lips new matter, And...? Is this that mistress, and that queen of nations ?" ELEGY VII. TRUST not thy eyelids, lest a flattering sleep Bribe them to rest, and they forget to... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...They clap their joyful hands, and fill their tongues With hisses, ballads, and with lyrick songs : Her torments give their empty lips new matter, And...? Is this that mistress, and that queen of nations ? FROM DtVtNE EMBLEM'S. O 1 WHlTHER shall I fly? what path untrod Shall I seek out to 'scape the flaming... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...ballads, and with lyrick songs : Her torments give their empty lips new matter, And with thcir seornful fingers point they at her : Is this (say they) that...? Is this that mistress, and that queen of nations ? FROM DIVINC EMBLEMS. O ! WHITHER shall I fly ? what path untrod Shall I seek out to 'seape the flaming... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 400 pages
...pride, They clap their joyful hands, and fill their tongues With hisses, ballads, and with lyric songs : Her torments give their empty lips new matter, And...wonted fame Made troubled earth to tremble at her name ? Ts this that state ? are these those goodly stations ? Is this that mistress, and that queen of nations... | |
 | John N Woodroffe - 1839 - 408 pages
...pride; They clap their joyful hands, and fill their tongues With hisses, ballads, and with lyric songs: Her torments give their empty lips new matter, And...that mistress and that queen of nations ?" Quarles. RELATIVE TO EPOM OR IDUMEA. Isaiah xxxiv. 5, 6, 10. Jer. xlix. 7, 10, 16—18. Ezek. xxv. 12—14;... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...They clap their joyful hands , and fill their tongues With hisses, ballads, and with lyrick songs : Her torments give their empty lips new matter, And...that mistress, and that queen of nations? Quarles' From Divine Emblems. 0! whither shall I fly? what path untrod Shall 1 seek out to 'scape the naming... | |
 | Francis Quarles - English literature - 1880 - 272 pages
...hands, and fill their tongs With hisses, ballads, and with Lyrick songs ; Her torments giue their emptie lips new matter, And, with their scornful! fingers,...State? are these, those goodly Stations? Is this that Mistris, and that Queene of Nations? ELEG. 16. /^vVencht are the dying Embers of Compassion, \^, For... | |
| |
