 All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe ' found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire and had governed long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of Nonsense...  Temple Bar - Page 951863Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 472 lehte
...obey. This Flecknoe found, * who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long; In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 480 lehte
...obey. This Flecknoe found, * who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long ; In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 474 lehte
...obey. This Flecknoe fouud, * who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long ; In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with... | |
 | John Dove - 1832 - 134 lehte
...with great humour and satire, that wretched Poet, Richard Flecnoe, who, as Dryden expresses it,— " In prose and verse was owned without dispute, Through all the realms of nonsense, absolute." B2 This Poem suggested one of the best and severest satires in the English language,—we mean Dryden's... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1835 - 78 lehte
...with great humour and satire, that wretched Poet, Richard Flecnoe, who, as Dryden expresses it, — " In prose and verse was owned without dispute, Through all the realms of nonsense, absolute." This Poem suggested one of the best and severest Satires in the English language, — we mean Dryden's... | |
 | 1842 - 740 lehte
...represented as the son of a proverbial bard, whose name gives the satire a title, and who so long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute, Through all the realms of nonsense — absolute! This production will always be deemed unsurpassable for the keenness of its wit, the felicity of its... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 760 lehte
...represented as the son of a proverbial bard, whose name gives the satire a title, and who so long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute, Through all the realms of nonsense — abiolute! This production will always be deemed unsurpassable for the keenness of its wit, the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 lehte
...the day. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long ; In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with... | |
 | 1850 - 836 lehte
...himself heir to the " vacant throne" of Irish Flecknoe, " who,'1 according to a partial historian, " in prose and verse, was owned without dispute, through all the realms of nonsense absolute." The laurel wreath of Cœsar, wo are told, served to hide the baldness of its wearer's brows ; it is... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 318 lehte
...obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long ; In prose and verse, was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blessed with issue of a large increase ; Worn out with... | |
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