 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 páginas
...nor fears your steady hand beguile ; Yourself our balance hold, the world's our isle. MAC-FLECKNOE. ALL human things are subject to decay, •' And when...This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire, and had govcrn'd long: In prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute; Through all... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 páginas
...for lost man's redemption dy'd : and equal adoration be, eternal Paraclete, to thee. MAC-FLECKNOE. All human things are subject to decay, and when fate...This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long: in prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute, through all... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 páginas
...for lost man's redemption dy'd : And equal adoration be, eternal Paraclete, to thee. MAC-FLECKNOE. All human things are subject to decay, and when fate...obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young wascall'd to empire, and had govern'd long: in prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute, through... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 páginas
...monarch's breast. Pudct h zc opprobria, vobis Et dici polnisse. et non potnme rpfelli. MAC-FLECNOE. 1682. ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This i'lecnoe* found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long ; In prose and... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 498 páginas
...compensation for the ludicrous and mock dignity with which his foe had invested him. MAC-FLECNOE. f ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecnoe found,* who. like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long ; In prose and... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 páginas
...was Israel's peace restored, Crowds mourn'd their error, and obey'd their lord. MAC-FLECNOE. 1682. ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecnoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long ; In prose and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...Ten thousand angels on her slumbers wait, With glorious visions of her future state. MAC-FLECKNOE. pass, Insnar'd with flow'rs, I fall on grass. Mean...less, Withdraws into its happyness ; The mind, that call'd to empire, and had govern'd long : In prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute, Through all... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 páginas
...foes, may this their blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee. DRYDEN. MAC-FLECNOE. 1682. ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecnoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long; In prose and... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 páginas
...Dryden. I see thee, in that fatal hour, Subjected to the victor's cruel power. Led hence a slave. Id. All human things are subject to decay. And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey. Id, Were subjects so but only by their choice. And not from birth did forced dominion take, Our prince... | |
 | John Dove - 1832 - 134 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
