 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...with a purple grace He shows his honest face. Now, give the hautboys breath ! he comes ! he comes I Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first...treasure Sweet the pleasure Sweet is pleasure after pain. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain : Fought all his battles o'er again: And thrice he routed... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...with a purple grace, V£e shows his honest face. 258 POETRY. Now give the hautboys breath—he comes ! he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys...Sweet the pleasure; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...the soldier's pleasure . Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain CHORUS. rise thee, and her black attendant Death.' " Here finish'd Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again ; [the slain. And thrice... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 pages
...breath; he comes, he conies. Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's...Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. P Sooth' d with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...; Flushed with a purple grace, He shows his honest face ; Now give the hautboys breath : he comes ! he comes ! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking...Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...drums ; Flushed with a purple grace He shews his honest face : Now give the hauthoys breath ; he comes, he comes. Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys...Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. 430 ALEXANDER'S FEAST, OR IHE POWER OF MUSIC. IV. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought... | |
 | G. F. Burckhardt - 1853 - 366 pages
...with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he conies: £rodjaifdj: Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first...Sweet the pleasure; Sweet 'is pleasure after pain. Dryden. 2Han (efe ba8 gatije ®ebt$t, urn efnen Segriff »on ber SWarniiflfaftiqMt biefet fctjaubernb... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...Later on the musician turns to praise of Bacchus, and the verse changes to the lilt of a drinking song: Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the...Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. One would have to go through the whole poem to demonstrate the different kinds of shading and the modulations... | |
 | 1909 - 650 pages
...face : Now give the hautboys breath ; he comes, he comes. Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking jovs did first ordain ; Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Sweet the pleasure, rich the treasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain." BY THE TOASTM ASTER: By some... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 pages
...drums ; Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath ; he comes, he comes. Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys...treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.1 43. The Lesser Divinities of Earth were : 1. Pan, son of Mercury and a wood-nymph or Dryad.... | |
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Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus... 
