 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...1682. ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This i'lecnoe* found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire,...peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn olit with business, did at length debate To settle the succession of the state ; And pondering which... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1821 - 498 pages
...MAC-FLECNOE. f ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecnoe found,* who. like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire,...length debate To settle the succession of the state ; And, pondering which of all his sons was fit To reign, and wage immortal war with wit, Cried, —... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...1682. ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecnoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire,...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And bless'd with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...1682. ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecnoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire,...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And bless'd with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...future state. MAC-FLECKNOE. All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must sure less, Withdraws into its happyness ; The mind,...resemblance find ; Yet it creates, transcending these, 'Пи- aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blessed with issue of a large increase; Worn out... | |
 | Biography - 1838 - 562 pages
...language. The poetry of the new laureat was so indifferent, as to give ample scope for ridicule : — This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was...dispute, Through all the realms of nonsense, absolute. Although these lines be written of Flecknoe, Shadwell is the hero of the piece, introduced as if selected... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 544 pages
...poetry of the new laureat was so indifferent, as to give ample scope for ridicule : — This Fleeknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire,...dispute, Through all the realms of nonsense, absolute. Although these lines be written of Fleeknoe, Shadwell is the hero of the piece, introduced as if selected... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...obey. 11ш Flecknoe1 found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long ; lii prose and verse was own'd, without dispute, Through...blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with bus'ness, did at length debate To settle the succession, of the state ; 1 Richard Flccknoo, an Irish... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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,...length debate To settle the succession of the state ; And pondering which of all his sons was fit To reign, and wage immortal war with wit, Cried, " 'Tis... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...poetical. All human tbings are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey; This Flecnoe found, who, like Augustus, young, Was call'd to empire,...realms of Nonsense, absolute. This aged prince, now governing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length... | |
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Through all the realms of Nonsense 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 of the state; And pond'ring which of all his sons... 
