 | 1871 - 908 páginas
...been a "dainty dish" to set before Laureate Shadwell at In's breakfast table. These are they : — All human things are subject to decay ; And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoc found ; who, like Augustus, young, Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long : In prose... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 páginas
...Augustus, young Was call'd to empire and had govem'd long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute 5 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 business, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 páginas
...whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate." Absalom and AchUopheL FROM " All human things are subject to decay; And, when Fate...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with bus'ness, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 páginas
...was a mock heroic in rhymed couplets, setting forth how that aged prince, Richard. Flecknoe, who " In prose and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of nonsen&e absolute," chose in his last days Shadwell for successor: " Shadwell alone of all my sons... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 páginas
...Ten thousand angels on her slumbers wait, With glorious visions of her future state. MAC FLECKNOE.1 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...to shew, The way which thou so well hast learned below. Satire on Shadwell.— From ' Mac-Flecknoc.' r that which cannot Flecknoe1 found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long ; In prose and... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1878 - 772 páginas
...twitch'd his mantle blew ; To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. DRYDEN. MAC FLECK NOE. ALL humane things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons,...This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire and had govern'd long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute 5 Through all... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 706 páginas
...that aged prince, Richard Flecknoe, an Irish writer who had died about four years before, and who " In prose and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute," chose in his last days Shadwell for successor : " Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 páginas
...SHADWELL. [From Mac FlecJ<noe ; October, 1682.] All human things are subject to decay, And, when P'ate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe ' found,...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 páginas
...Shadwell, whom Flecknoe had set up as the satirist's rival : All human things are subject to decay, This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
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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... 
