 Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's eye; And in themselves their pride lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd,...  Lectures on the English Poets - Page 305by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...might be set abroach, In shadow of such greatness ! 19 — iv. 2. 309 Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread, But as the marigold at the sun's...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd. Poems. 310 They do abuse the king that flatter him : For flattery is the bellows blows up sin ; The... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 370 pages
...make to the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end." " Great princes' favorites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's...lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die." " So flatter I the swart-comple.rioned night." " Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, Thy... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 396 pages
...make to the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end." " Great princes' favorites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's...lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die." " So flatter I the swart-complexioned night." " Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, Thy... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pages
...make to the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end." " Great princes' favorites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's eye : And in themselves their pride lies buriecl, For at a frown they in their glory die." " So flatter I the swart-compleiioned night." " Thy... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...So do our minutes hasten to their end." " Great princes' favorites their fair leaves spread But us the marigold at the sun's eye : And in themselves their pride lies buriC'd, For at a frown they in their glory die." " So flatter I the swart-complexioned night." Thou... | |
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...fortune of such triumph bars, Unlooked-for joy in that I honour most. Great princes' favorites their fair leaves spread, But as the marigold at the sun's eye; And in themselves their pride was buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...friends my asylum. ' The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled.' Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked. Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk, in which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 338 pages
...Fortune of such triumph ban, Unlook'd-for joy in that I honor most. Great princes' favorites their fair leaves spread, But as the marigold at the sun's...thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honor rased quite. And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd : Then happy I, that love and am beloved,... | |
 | England - 1842 - 850 pages
...whispered itself to Pompey's heart, as he 8iw the hillowy war advancing upon him in his old age — " The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand...quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd." To say the truth, in this instance as in so many others, the great moral of the retribution escapes... | |
 | Scotland - 1842 - 916 pages
...whispered itself to Pompey's heart, as he saw the billowy war advancing upon him in his old age— . "The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a...razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toi1'd." To say the truth, in this instance as in so many others, the great moral of the retribution... | |
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