Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love. In the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thrived with large increase ; When love was all an easy... The Fortunate Union: A Romance - الصفحة 1951829 - عدد الصفحات: 520عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Sir John Francis Davis - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 582
...course of the action. Love and war constitute the whole subject of the piece, of which the moral is to expose the evil consequences of luxury, effeminacy, and supineness in the sovereign. The story is taken from that portion of the Chinese annals previous to the first conquest by the Mongols,... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...In the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprang the rank weed, and thrived with large increase. When love was all an easy monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war ; Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ ; 330 Nay wits had pensions, and young lords had... | |
| Thomas Smibert - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 126
...POPE. " To sing those honours you deserve to wear, And add new lustre to her silver star." — POPE. " When love was all an easy monarch's care, Seldom at council, never in a war." — POPE. " Fame, I foresee, will make reprisals there, And the translator's palm to me transfer."... | |
| Sir John Francis Davis - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...course of the action. Love and war constitute the whole subject of the piece, of which the moral is to expose the evil consequences of luxury, effeminacy, and supineness in the sovereign. The story is taken from that portion of the Chinese annals previous to the first conquest by the Mongols,... | |
| John Walker - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 720
...— PoPE. To sing those honours you deserve to wear, And add new lustre to her silver star. — PoPE. When love was all an easy monarch's care, Seldom at council, never in a war. — PoPE. Fame I foresee will make reprisals there, And the translator's palm to me transfer. — FENTON.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...In the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : When love was all an easy monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war ; Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ ; Nay wits had pensions, and young lords had wit... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...In the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprang the rank weed, and thrived with large increase: When love was all an easy monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war ; Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ : Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...In the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : When love was all an easy monarch's care, Seldom at council, never in a war ; Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ ; Nay wits had pensions, and young lords had wit... | |
| 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...ihefat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thrived with large increase; 335 When love was all an easy monarch's care; Seldom at council, never in a war; (60) Jilts (61) ruled the State, and statesmen farces writ: MEANINGS OF WORDS is ITALICS, AS SUGGESTIONS... | |
| John Walker - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...POPÍ, To sing those honours you deserve to wear, And add new lustre to her silver »tar. — POPK. When love was all an easy monarch's care, Seldom at council, never in a ¡ear. — POPK. Fame I foresee will make reprisals there, And the translator's palm to me transfer.... | |
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