 Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!  Early English poems, Chaucer to Pope - Pagina 225door English poems - 1863Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 620 pagina’s
...deftroying: If the World be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying ! Lovely Thau fits befide thee ; Take the Good the Gods provide thee: The Many rend the Skies with loud Applaufe, So Love was crown'd, butMufick won the Caufe. The Prince, unable to conceal his Pain, Gaz'd... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 528 pagina’s
...: If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais fits befides thee, Take the goo.d the gods provide thee. The many rend the fkies with loud applaufe ; So Love was crown'd, but Mufic won the caufe. The prinee, unable to conceal... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 386 pagina’s
...: If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais fits befides thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the flues with loud applaufe ; So Love was crown'd, but Mufic won the caufe. The prince, unable to conceal... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 388 pagina’s
...: If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais fits befides thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the fkies with loud applaufe ; So Love was crown'd, but Mufic won the caufeThe prince, unable to conceal... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 288 pagina’s
...deftroying : If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying. Lovely Thais fits befide thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the fides with loud applaufe ; So Love was crown'd, but Mafic won the caufe. The prince, unable to conceal... | |
 | John Bell - 1777 - 644 pagina’s
...still beginning. Fighting still, and still destroying: If the -world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying. Lovely Thais sits beside...the skies with loud applause : So love was crown'd, hut music won the cause. The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd his care,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 326 pagina’s
...deftroying : If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais fits befide thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the (kies with loud applaufe ; So Love was crown'd, but Mufic won the caufe. The prince', unable to conceal... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1785 - 568 pagina’s
...deftroying, If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais fits befide thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the flties with loud applaufe ; So Love was crown'd, but Mufic won the caufe. The prince, unable to conceal... | |
 | George Ellis - 1790 - 346 pagina’s
...deftroying: If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying ! Lovely Thais fits befide thee; Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the fkies with loud applaufe: So Love was crown'd, but Mufic won the caufe. The prince, unable to conceal... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1799 - 156 pagina’s
...of this conflrudYion fometimes confift »f eight fyllables, and end with a double rhyme. EXAMPLES. Lovely Thais sits beside thee ; Take the good the gods provide thee. Dryd. Bacchus' blefllngs are a treafure; Drinking is the foldier's pleafure. Id. The following fong,... | |
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