 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 654 páginas
...SAINTSBURY. "MACFLECKNOE" — ANTECEDENT OF POPE'S "DUNCIAD." The hero of this brilliant satire is Shad well, the old enemy of Dryden. Macflecknoe, a scribbling...decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoc found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long ; In prose and... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 338 páginas
...the wayward music of it is still in our ears, I will contrast it with a few lines from Dryden: — "All human things are subject to decay, And, when...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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 260 páginas
...the wayward music of it is still in our ears, I will contrast it with a few lines from Dryden :— " 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 482 páginas
...purposes of this edition. Its origin does not seem to be known, but it may be original. MAC-FLECKNOE. ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when fate...young Was called to empire, and had governed long ; * Richard Flecknoe, the unfortunate bard whom our author has damned to everlasting fame, was by birth... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 438 páginas
...Flecknoe, an Irish Roman Catholic Priest, who wrote much nonsense, and died in 1778 ; who — " In pun and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of nonsense absolute ; — " is represented as in his last days appointing Shad well to be his successor on the throne of... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 442 páginas
...Flecknoe, an Irish Roman Catholic Priest, who wrote much nonsense, and died in 1778 ; who — " In pun and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of nonsense absolnte ; — " is represented as in his last days appointing Shad well to be his successor on the... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1888 - 388 páginas
...It is introduced by the character of MacFlecknoe, and is conducted in a more properly humorous vein. All human things are subject to decay, And when Fate...dispute Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute. The ironical bombast of the picture is severe enough, but does not grate on our feelings like a free... | |
 | 1888 - 910 páginas
..." All human things are subject to decay ; Aud when fate summons, monnrcha must obey. This Fleckuoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long ; In prose and verso was owned without dieputa Throughout tho realms uf uonsenee absolute." It is but fair, however,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1891 - 460 páginas
...Birkenhead in 1647. Then came, in 1665, Richard Flecknoe, to whom Dry den ascribed sovereignty as one who " In prose and verse was owned without dispute -, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute" As he was equally ready in all forms of writing that his neighbours followed he, of course, wrote Characters.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 páginas
...The dead shall live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. 1 amend, assist MAC FLECKNOE1 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... | |
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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... 
