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" Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, 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 all his... "
Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry - Page 443
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The Works of the English Poets: Hughes

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 338 pages
...the treafure, z. Sweet the pleafure 1 BOTH. Sweet is pleafure after pain ! VI. REC ITATI VE. Fir'd with the found, the king grew vain ; Fought all his...thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he flew the flain. The mafter faw the madnefs rife, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And And while he Heaven...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 328 pages
...the foldier*! pleafure ; Rich the treafure, S<weet the pleafure; S<weet is pleafure after pain. IV. Sooth'd with the found, the king grew vain ; Fought...battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all' his foes j and thrjce he flew t!i« flain. The mafter faw the madnefs rife ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent...
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The Works of the English Poets: Hughes

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 346 pages
...the treafure, 2. Sweet thepleafure ! BOTH. Sweet is pleafure after pain ! .' VI. REC ITATI VE. Fii'd with the found, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all hi$ foes, and thrice he flew the flain. The mafter faw the madnefs rife, His glowing cheeks, his ardent...
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The Lady's Poetical Magazine: Or, Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 1

English periodicals - 1781 - 512 pages
...Sweet the pleafnre ; * Sweet is pleafure after pain!' Sooth'd with the found, the king grew vak>; , . Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he fl«y the flain. The BEAUTIES OF POETRY. 451 The mafter faw the madnefs rife, His glowing cheeks, his...
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Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 1

English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...joys did firft ordain : * Bacchus' bleffings are a treafure ; ' Drinking is the foldier's pleafure \ ' Rich the treafure, ' Sweet the pleafure ; * Sweet is pleafure after pain!* . . Sooth'd with the fcund, the king" grew vain ; - Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his fo:s,...
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...Drinking joys did firft ordain : Bacchus' blefiings are a treafure, Drinking is the foldier's pleafure ; Rich the treafure, .., Sweet the pleafure; ' . Sweet...thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he flew theflain, The mafler faw the madnefs rife ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And while he heav'n...
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Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1785 - 568 pages
...Drinking joys did firft ordain ; Bacchus' bleffings are a treafure, Drinking is the foldier's pleafure : •Rich .the treafure, Sweet the pleafure ; Sweet...after pain. Sooth'd with the found, the King grew vain ; Fougfit all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he flew the flain...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...joys did firft ordain : Bacchus' bleffings are a treafure ; Drinking is the foldier's pleafure ?• Rich the treafure ; Sweet the pleafure ; Sweet is...all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed allhisfoes,and thrice he flewthe flail. The mafter faw the madnefs rife ; His glowing crieeks, his...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volume 1

George Ellis - English poetry - 1790 - 346 pages
...Drinking joys did firft ordain : Bacchus' bleffings are a treafure, Drinking is the foldier's pleafure; Rich the treafure, Sweet the pleafure; Sweet is pleafure...thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he flew the flain. The mafter faw the madnefs rife, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heav'n and...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 19

English poets - 1790 - 312 pages
...is the foldier's pleafure; Rich the treafure, Siveet the pleafure; Sweet is pleafure after pain. IV. Sooth'd with the found, the king grew vain; Fought...thrice he routed all his foes ; and thrice he flew. d* flain. . The mafter faw the madnefs rife ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And while he heaven...
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