 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
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 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. ******* 'Tis sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels, By blood or ink ; 'tis sweet to put an end... | |
 | Hiram Corson - English language - 1892 - 248 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. In the next stanza, he carries the unseriousness still further, and it is still more marked by the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 324 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 Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 374 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...first-born's birth, Sweet is revenge—especially lo women, Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seamen. Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected...seventy years complete, Who've made 'us youth' wait too—too long already For an estate, or cash, or country seat, Still breaking, but with stamina so... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1895 - 326 pages
...sweet are our escapes From civic revelry to rural mirth ; Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps, Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected...too — too long already For an estate, or cash, or countiy-seat, Still breaking, but with stamina so steady, That all the Israelites are fit to mob its... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American poetry - 1894 - 588 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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...first-born's birth, Sweet is revenue— especially to women, Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seaSweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected death of some old ladr, Or gentleman of seventy years complete, Who've made "us youth" wait too, too long already, For... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...first-born's birth, Sweet is revenge — especially to women, Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seaSweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected death...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... | |
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