| John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...like Augustus, young, Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long; In prosĀ£ and verse war, own'd, without dispute, 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 hus'ness, did at length dehate To settle the succession... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...who, like Augustus, young Was call il to empire, and had govern'd long , In prose and verse was own'd, without dispute, 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... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire ; and had govern'd long ; In prose and verse was own'd, without dispute, 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 bus'ness, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 472 pages
...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...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 - English literature - 1808 - 474 pages
...are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe fouud, * who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed...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 - English literature - 1808 - 480 pages
...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...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, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...who, lite Augustus, young Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long ; In prose and verse was own'd, without dispute, 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... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...become almost proverbial. Shadwell is represented as the adopted son of this venerable monarch, who so long " In prose and verse was owned without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute." * Jonson is described as wearing a ioose coachman's coat, frequenting the Mermaid tavern, where he... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Thre' all the realms of Nonsense absolute. This agfd prince, now flourishing in peace, A ml Mcsn'd ate ; Rcsolv'd to ruin or to rule the state. To compass thin, the triple bond 'I'u settle the succession of the state : And pond'ring which, of all hi* sons, waifit To reign, and... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...who, like Augustus, young wascall'd to empire, and had govern'd long: in prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute, 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... | |
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