 | Phrenology - 1827 - 674 pages
...PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL. No XIII. ARTICLE I. LETTER FROM GEORGE COMBE TO FRANCIS JEFFREY, Esa. Moved " by the sound, the King grew vain : " Fought all his battles o'er again ; " THRICE he routed all his foes, and THRICE he SLEW the sr AIK." ALEXANDER'S FEAST. SIR, — An elaborate... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...soldier's pleasure! Rich the treasure Sweet the pleasure ; — Sweet is pleasure after pain. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his...cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defy'd, Ghang'd his hand, and check'd his prid«. He chose a mournful muse, Sort pity to infuse, He... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure ; Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure, after pain. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; 1ml thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew (he slaic> The master saw the madness rise... | |
 | 1829 - 642 pages
...animadversions on the noble science of phrenology. Combe chose the famous lines by " Glorious John i" " Soothed with the sound the king grew vain ; Fought...routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain ;" alluding to the three attacks in the Edinburgh Review, all of which were successfully and ably refuted... | |
 | Law - 1919 - 674 pages
...described the effect upon Alexander and his " ast-embled peers in these words: — Soothed with th§ sound, the king grew vain, Fought all his battles...routed all his foes, And thrice he slew the slain. "cannot suppose that Parliament had never heard of this poem. " They must have known that people were... | |
 | M. H. Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 494 pages
...Alexander's Feast and another from Cymon and Iphigenia. The first is that in which the tipsy Alexander 'Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the skin.' Certainly, if the thing was to be done at all, this is the way to do it. The sudden irruption... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...chorus :— " Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain." After all this, " The king grew vain, Fought all his battles o'er again...He chose a mournful muse, Soft pity to infuse ; He sang Darius, great and good, Deserted at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed ; On the bare... | |
 | Lawrence O. Koch - Social Science - 1988 - 356 pages
...of the music of Bird and Diz. CHAPTER XV MORE STRINGS Granz Productions (July-October 1950) Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his...routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. John Dryden — Alexander's Feast At the end of June 1950, as America entered the Korean conflict as... | |
 | David M. Nelson - Sports & Recreation - 1994 - 610 pages
...and the character of the game was changing. Fourth Quarter Grass Basketball and a Safer Game Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain Fought all his...routed all his foes, And thrice he slew the slain. — John Dryden, Alexander's Feast 17 John Waldorf's Era, 1968-1975 NCAA Football Rules Committee Is... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - Literary Collections - 1997 - 146 pages
...magnificence, as in "Alexander's Feast": — Sooth 'd with the sound the king grew vain; Fought all his hattles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The great advantage of Dryden over Milton is that while the former is always in control of his ascent,... | |
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Changed his hand, and check'd his pride. He chose a mournful muse, Soft pity to infuse: He sung Darius great and good! ~By too severe a fate, Fallen! fallen! fallen! fallen! Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood! 
