 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...  The Poetical Works of John Dryden - Page 375by John Dryden - 1897 - 662 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peter Pindar - 1812 - 522 pages
...Hide-money is worth enjoying* : • " War, he sang, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble: Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and...destroying. If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying." Cutting, killing, drowning, starving ; Soldiers' Skins are well worth... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...pleasures, War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honor but an empty bubble ! Never ending, still beginnin g, Fighting still and still destroying. If the world...it worth enjoying ; Lovely Thais sits beside thee ; Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the skies with loud appiause, So love was crown'd... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - Elocution - 1815 - 340 pages
...trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble ! Never ending, still beginning. 316 AMERICAN ORATOR.— DRYD*N-. Fighting still, and still destroying. If the world...it worth enjoying ; Lovely Thais sits beside thee ; Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the skies with loud applause, So love was crown'd... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasure*, War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honor but an empty bubble ! Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and...winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying ; Lovely T hais sits beside thee ; Take the good the gods provide thee, The many rend the skies with loud applause,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and...winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying ! Lovely ThaYs sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.— The many rend the skies with loud applause... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1831 - 952 pages
...soothed his soul to pleasures. " What is honour ? 'tis a bubble ; What is war ? 'tis toil and trouble. Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and...worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying ! See fair Thais sit beside thee, Take the good the Gods provide thee ; Joys descend from pow'rs above,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung* is toil and trouble ; Honour, but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and...worth, thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying 1 Lovely Thais sits beside thee : Take the good the gods provide thee.— The many rend the skies with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...the world be worth thy winning, Think, О think, it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the skies with loud applause ; So Love was crown'd, but Music won the cause. The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...he sooth'd his soul to pleasure!. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and...it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the skies with loud applause ; So Love was crown'd,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...he sooth'd his soul to pleasures : War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour, but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and...it worth enjoying ; Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee — 6 The many rend the skies with loud applause ; So Love was... | |
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