 Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By Solon caution'd to regard his end, In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise? From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller...  Works - Page 160by Samuel Johnson - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...await, Who set unclouded in the gulphs of Fate. From Lydia's monarch should the search descend. By Sofon il, hurts Marlu'roup'h's eyes the streams of dotage And Swift expires a dnv'lcr and a show, [flow , The J teeming... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...unclonded in the gulfs of Fate. From Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By Solon cantion'd to regard his end ; In life's last scene what prodigies...Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ? From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. The teeming... | |
 | 1809 - 878 pages
...early period of our revolutionary tirug!* thus spent their declining years. " In life's last scenes what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave and follies of the wise. From MarlbYough's eves the streams of dotage fiuWj And Swift expires a driveller and a show." Besides the... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 pages
...early period of our revolutionary struggle, thus spent their declining years. " In life's last scenes what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave and follies of the wise. Krom Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show." Besides... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...retire to peace. But few there are whom hours like these await, Who set unclouded in the gulfs of Fate. From Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By...Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ? From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage And Swift expires a driveller and a show. [flow, The teeming... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 pages
...retire to peace. But few there are whom hours like these await, Who set unclouded in the gulfs of Fate. From Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By...surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise i From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage And Swift expires a driveller and a show, [flow, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...are whom hours like these await, Who set unclouded in the gulfs of Fate. Frorn Lydia's monarch shouid the search descend, By Solon caution'd to regard his...Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ? From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. The teeming... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...unclouded in the gulfs of fate — From Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By Solon cautioned to regard his end, In life's last scene what prodigies...Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller, and a show. The teeming... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...in his ' Vanity of Human Wishes,' has Johnson associated this noblman with his elegiac lampooner : ' In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ; From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires — a driveller and a show.' easiness,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 506 pages
...Fate. From Lydia's monarch should the search descend, " An age that melts in. ° Could wish its eml. By Solon caution'd to regard his end, In life's last scene what prodigies surprize, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage... | |
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