 | Peter Pindar - 1812 - 522 pages
...winning : Fighting still, and still destroying; Hide-money is worth enjoying* : • " War, he sang, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble:...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...gods provide thee. The many rend the skies with loud appiause, So love was crown'd ; but music won the cause The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'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...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...sound to move ; For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble...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... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasure*, War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honor but an empty bubble ! Never ending, still beginning,...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,... | |
 | 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
...sound to move ; For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung* is toil and trouble...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
...sound to move. For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in I.ydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble;...Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and «till destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, О think, it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...in Ljdian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honor but an empty bubble ! Never ending, still beginning....many rend the skies with loud applause, So love was crown'd ; but music won the cause. The prince, unible to conceal hia pain, Gaz'd on the fair, Who caus1... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...kindred-sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures : War, he sung, is toil and trouble...many rend the skies with loud applause ; So Love was crown'd, but Music won the cause. The Prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gazed on the fair, Who caused... | |
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Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee! 
