 Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes,...  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 185by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
 | George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...d'Abner et d' Amasa) " duraut la pair, comme il avoit fait, durant la guerre." A terrible man this Joab, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The other passage he renders, " Elle n'a point mang£ son paiu dans I'oisiveteV' The meaning is very indistinctly... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er agam ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew The master saw the madness rise ; [the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure; Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Sooth'd seen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the st ; [the slain. And thrice ho routed all his foes, and thrice he slew The master saw the madness rise... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Sooth'd o ЏA R ;+ lo 7 : ? ݄ Ǟ _ %% q(j ! Aq i: 5 s C cv » " z N m i be slain. The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And, while he heav'n... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1962 - 598 pages
...number of descendants of Dan (Genesis 46:13; Numbers 16:41, 1:16, 16:43) in Chapter XVIII, Tf1*5. 49:5. "And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain." — Dryden, Alexander's Feast, line 68. 49: 11-15. Colenso, Chapter II, 118 and Preface, p. 11: "In... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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