 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1880 - 1104 páginas
...sovereignty of the realms of Dulness, of which he, heretofore, had been the undisputed possessor. " All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecnoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had govern'd long. For prose and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 páginas
...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. SHAD WELL. [From Mac Flecltnoe; October, 1682.] All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe1 found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire and had governed long, In prose and... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 páginas
...means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. SHADWELL. [From Mac Flecltaoe; October, 1682.] 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1882 - 484 páginas
...become almost proverbial. Shadwell is represented as the adopted son of this venerable monarch, who so long " In prose and verse was owned without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute." The solemn inauguration of Shadwell as his successor in this drowsy kingdom, forms the plan of the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1882 - 480 páginas
...become almost proverbial. Shadwell is represented as the adopted son of this venerable monarch, who so long " In prose and verse was owned without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute." The solemn inauguration of Shadwell as his successor in this drowsy kingdom, forms the plan of the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 492 páginas
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 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1882 - 1190 páginas
...select the poor man who gives a title to this poem as the type of dulness — the aged prince who — In prose and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute — for Flecknoe, who had been previously satirised by Andrew Marvell, was no fool. No doubt he was... | |
 | 1882 - 816 páginas
...select the poor man who gives a title to this poem as the type of dulness — the aged prince who — In prose and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute — for Flecknoe, who had been previously satirised by Andrew Marvell, was no fool. No doubt he was... | |
 | 1882 - 858 páginas
...that matter, were their neighbours in Mar; only Celtic piety was seldom so munificent as Norman. " All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey " — Dryden has told us in a well-worn couplet ; and the race of earls is no more immortal than the... | |
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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... 
