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,... | |
| 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 Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...gross attack on him in " The Medal," in which, looking back to Cromwell's time, the earl is styled "A vermin wriggling in the usurper's ear, Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold," and is described with absolute injustice as having " Groaned, sighed, and prayed, while godliness was... | |
| John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 430 pages
...gross attack on him in " The Medal," in which, looking back to Cromwell's time, the carl is styled "A vermin wriggling in the usurper's ear, Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold," and is described with absolute injustice as having " Groaned, sighed, and prayed, while godliness was... | |
| 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 - 314 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...ere a man, So young his hatred to his Prince began. A vermin wriggling in the usurper's ear, Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 478 pages
...fame, 'Twos coined by 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 1 A vermin wriggling in the usurper's ear ;t * Dry den does not here do justice to Shaftesbury, who... | |
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