 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...thirst of praise, Proved the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive: the livery'd servants wait: Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they... | |
 | Romani - 1824 - 548 pages
...thirst of praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive ; the liv'ry'd servants wait ; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they... | |
 | Charles Swan - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern - 1824 - 566 pages
...thirst of praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive ; the liv'ry'd servants wait ; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they... | |
 | Charles Swan - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern - 1824 - 596 pages
...thirst of praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive ; the liv'ry'd servants wait; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...thirst of praise, Proved the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive : the liveried servants wait : Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thirst of praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive : the livery'd servants his bowers, and lay his castle low. Those men, those wretched men ! who w costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they... | |
 | Wynnard Hooper - Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - 1824 - 552 pages
...thirst of praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive ; the liv'ry'd servants wait ; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they... | |
 | 1824 - 558 pages
...thirst of praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive ; the liv'ry'd servants wait ; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...thirst of praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arriVe : the liv'ried servants wait ; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, : And all is more than hospitably good. /. Then, led to rest, the day's long... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...thirst of praise, Proved the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive ; the liveried servants vessel glides The sunbeams trembling on the floating tides : "While melting costly piles of food, And all is шоге than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil... | |
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The table groans with costly piles of food, And all Is more than hospitably good. Then, led to rest, the day's long toil they drown, Deep sunk in sleep, and silk, and heaps of down. At length 'tis morn, and at the dawn of day Along the wide canals the... 
