 | John Wesley Hales - 1892 - 480 páginas
...twitch'd his mantle blew ; To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. DRYDEN. MAC FLECKNO E. ALL humane things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons,...must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, younj; Was call'd to empire and had govern'd long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute i;... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 páginas
...Hamlet quoted above and the passage from Dryden's Mac Flecknoe that follows, is a difference of tone 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 business, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...Garden. Dr. Johnson recorded that Dryden "found the language brick and left it marble." MACFLECKNOE 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 govem 'd long; In prose and... | |
 | Christine Quigley - 1996 - 372 páginas
...kindred with the great of old. Wealth and status do not exclude anyone, as John Dryden (d. 1700) notes: "All human things are subject to decay, / And when fate summons, monarchs must obey." James Shirley (d. 1666) personifies Death as laying his icy hand on kings. Even attempts at preservation... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...BARON BYRON, (1788-1824) British poet. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," cto. 4, st. 55 (1812-1818). 3 All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. JOHN DRYDEN, (1631-1700) British poet, dramatist, critic. "Mac Flecknoe," I. 1-2 (1682). Deception... | |
 | J. Douglas Canfield - 1997 - 340 páginas
...the same time that Dryden could begin MacFlecknoe with the shockingly appropriate lines, "All humane things are subject to decay, / And, when Fate summons, Monarchs must obey" before proceeding to the diminuendo, "This Fleckno found," writers of Restoration comedy began to return... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 362 páginas
...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 the realms of Non-sense,...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 páginas
...write. Yet every man is safe from what he feared; For no one fool is hunted from the herd. MacFlecknoe 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 business, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | Barry Spurr, Lloyd Cameron - 2000 - 332 páginas
...with the circumstances they recount. Other writers are so universal as to conceal individual details: All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. John Dryden: 'Mac Flecknoe' I lowever, even in works of epic scope, such as John Milton's Paradise... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 páginas
...English, unconcerned you sit, And see us play the tragedy of Wit. TOHN DRYDEN. g4 Mac Flecknoe AjL 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 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... 
