 Sweet is the vintage, when the showering grapes In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth Purple and gushing; sweet are our escapes From civic revelry to rural mirth; Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps, Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth,...  Don Juan - Page 73by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 227 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1886 - 850 pages
...would undoubtedly refuse to indorse the remarkably frank declaration of a hard-hearted modern poet: Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected...Who've made 'us youth' wait too, too long already. Up to a little more than a quarter of a century ago, the business connected with the proof and custody... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...mirth ; Sweet to the miser are his glittering heapaf Sweet to the father is his first-born's hirtfc| Sweet is revenge — especially to women, Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seamen. C ctxv, Sweet IB a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected death of some old lady, Or gentleman of... | |
 | Religion - 1858 - 806 pages
...; reminding us of the familiar lines in which the same thought is expressed without any pretence. ' Sweet is a legacy; and passing sweet The unexpected...of seventy years complete, Who've made " us youth " wail too, too long already For an estate, or cash, or country-seat,' &c. &c. Our ' unbeknown' but... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...mirth ; Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps, Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth, Sweet is revenge — especially to women, Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seamen. Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected death of some old lady, Or gentleman of seventy... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...mirth ; Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps, Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth, Sweet is revenge — especially to women, Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seamen. Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected death of some old lady, Or gentleman of seventy... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...mirth ; Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps; Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth ; Sweet is revenge — especially to women, Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seamen. BYRON. — Don Juan, Canto I. Stanza 124. Sweet Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...mirth ; Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps, Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth, Sweet is revenge — especially to women, Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seamen. Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected death of some old lady, Or gentleman of seventy... | |
 | J. H. - English poetry - 1867 - 860 pages
...first-born's birth, Sweet is revenge — especially to women, Pillage to soldiers, pri2e-money to seamen. Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected...too — too long already. For an estate, or cash, or country seat, Still breaking, but with stamina so steady, That all the Israelites are fit to mob its... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 pages
...to women, Pillage to soUUcrs, prixe- money to seamen. CXT. BYRON'S WORKS. CAXTO I. CXXV. Sweet is я 4 ]- Թ ; ˳ z k _ka - @Il Vրc| B ĶH [ <ђ, E nѭ ; @ "Who 've made "us youth " wait too — toolo«g alFor an estate, or cash, or country seat, [ready fitill... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...mirth : Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps ; Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth ; work. Show in an hour what he hath made in many, Or...sooth, return within an hour? Lucifer. He shall With bdy Or gentleman of seventy years complete. Who've made 'us youth' wait too — ton lonj already For... | |
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