 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1846 - 540 pages
...; Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain ! Soothed with the sound, the king grew rain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew tie slain ! The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ! He chose a... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; , Sweet is pleasure after pain. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew Tain : — Mide my approaches, from her hand Unto her Up sit* the slain. The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And, while... | |
 | Law - 1919 - 674 pages
...described the effect upon Alexander and his " ast-embled peers in these words: — Soothed with th§ sound, the king grew vain, Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, And thrice he slew the slain. "cannot suppose that Parliament had never heard of this poem. " They must have known... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...chorus :— " Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain." After all this, " The king grew vain, Fought all his battles o'er again...And thrice he routed all his foes ; and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And, while he... | |
 | Lawrence O. Koch - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 356 pages
...Bird and Diz. CHAPTER XV MORE STRINGS Granz Productions (July-October 1950) Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. John Dryden — Alexander's Feast At the end of June 1950, as America entered the Korean... | |
 | David M. Nelson - Sports & Recreation - 1994 - 610 pages
...of the game was changing. Fourth Quarter Grass Basketball and a Safer Game Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, And thrice he slew the slain. — John Dryden, Alexander's Feast 17 John Waldorf's Era, 1968-1975 NCAA Football Rules... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...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 foes, and thrice he slew the slain. All, all of a piece throughout: Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 pages
...appears as a delicate flavour to the magnificence, as in "Alexander's Feast": Sooth'd with the sound the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.23 elected a perch from which he cannot afford to fall, and from which he is in danger... | |
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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... 
