 A martial hero first, with early care, Blown, like a pigmy by the winds, to war. A beardless chief, a rebel, ere a man, So young his hatred to his Prince began.  The Life of John Locke - Page 137by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 506 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1871 - 604 pages
...is not certainly known.' Dryden's sneer at his brief military career is equally gratuitous : — ' A martial hero, first with early care Blown, like...pigmy by the winds, to war, A beardless chief, a rebel e'er a man, So young his hatred to his Prince began.' The winds first ' blew him ' into the royal camp,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1871 - 604 pages
...is not certainly known.' Dryden's sneer at his brief military career is equally gratuitous : — ' A martial hero, first with early care Blown, like...pigmy by the winds, to war, A beardless chief, a rebel e'er a man, So young his hatred to his Prince began.' The winds first ' blew him ' into the royal camp,... | |
 | 1871 - 650 pages
...is not certainly known.' Dryden's sneer at his brief military career is equally gratuitous : — 1 A martial hero, first with early care, Blown, like...pigmy by the winds, to war, A beardless chief, a rebel e'er a man, So young his hatred to his Prince began.' The winds first 'blew him' into the royal camp,... | |
 | William Dougal Christie - Great Britain - 1871 - 534 pages
...Dryden's sketeh of his history in " The Medal," the satirist's animosity has outrun accuracy : — " A martial hero first with early care, Blown, like a pigmy, by the winds to war : A lieardless chief, u rebel ere a man, So young his hatred to his prince began." It may be convenient... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...face, Could it have forin'd his ever-changing will, The various piece had tired the graver's skill ! A martial hero first, with early care, Blown, like...by the winds, to war. A beardless chief, a rebel, e'er a man : So young his hatred to his prince began. Next this (how wildly will ambition steer !)... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1878 - 518 pages
...face, Could it have form'd his ever-changing will, The various piece had tir'd the graver's skill! A martial hero first, with early care, Blown, like a pigmy, by the winds to war. üDiefelbe SMtterfeit vergiftete bte religiösen Sontroterfen. î)te ЬодтаЩфеп Streitigfeiten,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 474 pages
...fame, 'Twas coined hy stealth, like groats at Brumicham ; While each possessor, with exalted voice, A martial hero first, with early care, Blown, like...began.* Next this, — how wildly will ambition steer ! so A vermin wriggling in the usurper's ear ;t * Dryden does not here do justice to Shaftesbury, who... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1886 - 256 pages
...face, Could it have formed his ever-changing will, The various piece had tired the graver's skill ! A martial hero first, with early care Blown, like...began. Next this, (how wildly will ambition steer !) A vermin wriggling in the usurper's ear, Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - Periodicals - 1886 - 768 pages
...martial hero first, with early care Blown, like a pigmy to the winds, to war; A beardless chief, n rebel ere a man ; So young his hatred to his prince began." Then without a break, but with equal injustice, the poet proceeds: "Next this — how wildly will ambition... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English poetry - 1891 - 304 pages
...face, Could it have formed his ever-changing will, The various piece had tired the graver's skill ! A martial hero first, with early care Blown, like...began. Next this, (how wildly will ambition steer !) A vermin wriggling in the usurper's ear, Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself... | |
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