 | Sir Charles Hanbury Williams - English literature - 1822 - 290 pages
...composed the following distich on the Empress Queen : " Oh Regina orbis prima et pulcherrima ! ridens i'.s Venus, incedens Juno, Minerva loquens." The general...Dresden, and attended the King of Poland to Warsaw in 1754, where, upon espousing very warmly the interests of the Poniatowskys in an affair called, the... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pages
...distich on the Queen of Hungary, which I send you for the curiosity, not the merit of it : — " O regina orbis prima et pulcherrima, ridens Es Venus, incedens Juno, Minerva loquens." It is infinitely admired at Vienna, but Baron Munchausen has received a translation of it into German... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pages
...distich on the Queen of Hungary, which I send you for the curiosity, not the merit of it : — " O regina orbis prima et pulcherrima, ridens Es Venus, incedens Juno, Minerva loquens." It is infinitely admired at Vienna, but Baron Munchausen has received a translation of it into German... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Great Britain - 1846 - 446 pages
...proceed to extremities after stopping the Silesian loan; and in his triple • 1 See Appendix, vol. i. capacity of Minister, Courtier, and Poet, he composed...publication, was to the full as easy, lively, and humorous as his verse. After returning to England he was again appointed to Dresden, and attended the... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Great Britain - 1847 - 448 pages
...Minister, Courtier, and Poet, he composed the following distich on the Empress Queen : . " Oh Eegina orbis prima et pulcherrima ! ridens Es Venus, incedens...publication, was to the full as easy, lively, and humorous as his verse. After returning to England he was again appointed to Dresden, and attended the... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...in the observatory. Verses that won the Prize at Vienna on the Empress's (Maria Theresa) Birthday. O regina, orbis prima et pulcherrima ridens Es Venus, incedens Juno, Minerva loquens. Sir C. II. Williams. Thus translated : Hail, peerless princess ! Juno's self in mien, Pallas in wit,... | |
 | John Booth - Epigrams - 1865 - 400 pages
...in the observatory. Verses that won the Prize at Vienna on the Empress's (Maria Theresa) Birthday. O regina, orbis prima et pulcherrima ridens Es Venus, incedens Juno, Minerva loquens. Sir CH Williams Thus translated : Hail, peerless princess ! Juno's self in mien, Pallas in wit, in... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - English drama - 1875 - 510 pages
...many other candidates, his complimental epigram on the birth-day, and carried the prize in triumph : O Regina orbis prima et pulcherrima : ridens Es Venus, incedens Juno, Minerva loquens. The compliment has since passed through other hands, and was, not long ago, applied to one who had as little... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - English drama - 1875 - 510 pages
...many other candidates, his complimental epigram on the birth-day, and carried the prize in triumph : O Regina orbis prima et pulcherrima : ridens Es Venus, incedens Juno, Minerva loquens. The compliment has since passed through other hands, and was, not long ago, applied to one who had as little... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1875 - 400 pages
...greatly admired at Vienna at the time it was written, it may be more BO than its merits justify : — " O regina orbis prima et pulcherrima, ridens Es Venus, incedens Juno, Minerva loquens."* It was once contemptuously observed by Dr. Johnson of Sir Charles Williams, that, as a poet, "he had... | |
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The general style of his poetry was far from being so complimentary ; and that of his prose, though not so well known, and often too licentious for publication, was to the full as easy, lively, and humorous as his verse. 