 | John Dryden - 1771 - 256 pages
...love. Softly fweet, in Lydian meafures, ' • ? Soon he footh'd his foul to pleafurcs,War. he fung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. Never ending, ftill beginning, fiill, and (lill deftroying, If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1785 - 568 pages
...to love. Softly fweet, in Lydian meafures, Soon he footh'd his foul to pleafures. War, War, he fung, is toil and trouble. Honour, but an empty bubble ;...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... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...the mind to love. Softly fweet in Lydian meafurcs, Soon hq footh'd his foul to pleafures. War he fung is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble;...If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O, think \\ worth enjoying ! Lovely Thais fits befidc th«e, Take the good the gods provide thee. • .» The... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...; Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, llill beginning, Fighting ftill, and ftill deitroying. If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying ! Lovely Thais fiti befide thce ; Take the good the gods provide tliee: The many rend the ikies with loud applaufe... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1790 - 346 pages
...mind to love. Softly fweet, in Lydian meafures, Soon he footh'd his foul to pleafures. War, he fung, is toil and trouble, Honour but an empty bubble; Never...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:... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 312 pages
...mind to love. Softly fweet, in Lydian meafures, Soon he footh'd his foul to pleafures. War, he fung, is toil and trouble; * Honour but an empty bubble;...ending, ftill beginning, Fighting ftill, and ftill dcftroying: If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais fits... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...in Lydian meafures, Soon he fnoth'd his foul to pleafure*. War, he fung, is toil and trouble ; Honor but an empty bubble ; Never ending, ftill beginning,...worth thy winning^ Think, O, think it worth enjoying I Lovely Thais fits bcfide thee. Take the good the gods provide thce. — The many rend the fkies with... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Literature - 1791 - 472 pages
...meafures, Srybcn. Soon he footh'd his foul to plrafures, * War, he lung, is toil and trouble, Honour hut an empty bubble; Never ending, ftill beginning, Fighting...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...fweet, in Lydian meafures, Soon he footh'd his foul to pleafurcs, War he fung is toil and trouble j us idly bufy rolls their world away : Theirs are thofe...honour forms the focial temper here. Honour, that oh think it worth enjoying ! Lovely Thais fits bcfide thec, Take the good the gods provide thee. The... | |
 | 1793 - 376 pages
...footh'd his foul to pleafures. War, he fung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble ; 100 Never ending, ftill beginning, Fighting ftill, and...winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais fits befide thee, 105 Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the fkies with loud... | |
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War, he sung, is toil and trouble; 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... 
