Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their... The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a memoir and ... - Page 197by William Shakespeare - 1843Full view - About this book
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent royal of their emperor : Who, busied in his majesty, surveys...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. SHAKSPEARE. Cock Robin. Who killed Cock Robin ? I, says the Sparrow, With my bow and arrow, I killed... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 626 pages
...buds; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent royal of their emperor: Who, liusiecl in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone.' Henry V. a. 1, s. 2. Who would not affirm, from this and other incidental allusions, that Shakspeare... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...illustration beautifully remarks that as nothing is good for one bee which is not " ' So work the honey-bees; Creatures that by a rule in nature, teach The act...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy, yawning drone.' Henry V., Act i., Scene 2. Nunc age, naturas apibus, quas Jupiter ipse,' &c.— 149 — 1'57. equally... | |
| Joseph Taylor - Insects - 1817 - 266 pages
...bring home To the tent royal of their emperor, Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing mason building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone," Remarkable instance of forbearance, and subsequent punishment, of a migratory Bee. A GENTLEMAN, in... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burthens at his narrow gate; The sad-eyed justice, with his...infer, That many things, having full reference To one consent, may work contrariously: As many arrows, loosed several ways, Come to one mark; as many ways... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanick porters crowding in Their heavy burthens at his narrow gate; The sad-eyed justice, with his...infer, That many things, having full reference To one consent, may work contrariously : As many arrows, loosed several ways, Come to one mark ; as many ways... | |
| English literature - 1828 - 500 pages
...with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor : Who, busy'd in his majesty, silrveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. " Fufl of wise saws and modern instances." The meaning of this passage is, that the justice supports... | |
| William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...buried in his majesty, surveys The singing mason, building roofs of gold : The civil citizens boarding up the honey ; The poor mechanic porters crowding...o'er to executors pale, The lazy, yawning drone." In describing the two other divisions of the metropolis, the West End, most undoubtedly, proves a dazzling... | |
| William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds; Which pillage they with merry inarch bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who,...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. 1 this infer,— That many things, having full reference To one concent, may work contrariously; As... | |
| William Charles Cotton - Bee culture - 1842 - 434 pages
...boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent royal of their emperor : Who, busied in his majesty, surveys...Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning Drone. SHAKSPEARE. Henry V. Act i. Scene 2. &e"tcv TI TO yevos TO TUV MeAiTTai/. OLD GKEEK PHILOSOPHER. Sic... | |
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