 Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still,...  The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American ... - Pàgina 316per Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 324 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pàgines
..."War, he sung, is toil and trouble , Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending , still beginning , Fighting still , and still destroying , If the world...winning Think , o think it worth enjoying. Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee. Take the good the Gods provide thee. The many rend the skies with loud applause.... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pàgines
...sung, is toil and trouble; Honour hut an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting (till, and still destroying: If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O, think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thai's sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.— The many rend the skies with loud... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pàgines
...still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying : If the world fee worth thy winniiig, Thing, O think it worth enjoying. Lovely Thais sits beside...applause : So Love was crown'd, but Music won the cause. 1 he prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd his care, And sigh'd and look'd,... | |
 | Young gentleman - 1807 - 314 pàgines
...deftroying : If the world he worth thy winning. Think, O think it worth enjoying ! Lovely Thais fits hefide thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the skies with loud applaufe ; So Love was crown'd, hut Mufic won the caufe. The Prince, unahle to conceal his pain, Gag'd... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pàgines
...pleasures : War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying: If the world...many rend the skies with loud applause ; So Love was crowned, but Music won the cause. The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gazed on the fair, Who caused... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pàgines
...pleasures: War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying: If the world...many rend the skies with loud applause ; So Love was crowned, hut Music won the cause. The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gazed on the fair, Who caused... | |
 | John Hubbard - 1808 - 26 pàgines
...aurviv'd, A loss too great, too great to be surviv'd. See Handel's Oratorio of Saul. Page 91, Fol. The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the...fair, Who caus'd his care, And sigh'd, and look'd, 12 Great masters have not generally attempted imitations on particular wordsj l>ut on general ideas.... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pàgines
...pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying : If the world...conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd his care, Sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again. At length, with love and... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 pàgines
...War, he sung, is toil and trouble; • • Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying : If the world...unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair, Who cani'd his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, .Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again ; At... | |
 | 1809 - 570 pàgines
...represents the most powerful influence of music upon the king as expressed, not by words, but by looks : " The prince unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the Fair Who caus'd his care, And •. i ,;!rt and Mt'rf, sigh'd and Iwk'd, Slgh'tl and Iook'ti, and sigh'd again: At length, with love... | |
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