 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
 | William Joseph Long - Literary Criticism - 1917 - 588 pages
...feel better after the reading. In the next stanza, however, Byron grows commonplace and ends with : Sweet is revenge, especially to women, Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seamen. And that is bad sentiment and worse rime, without any resemblance to poetry. The remaining stanzas... | |
 | Book collecting - 1922 - 832 pages
...way: Or gentleman of seventy years complete, Who 've made '' us youth'' wait too — too long already Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected death of some old lady For an estate, or cash, or country seat. Toughness, tenacity, relentless aggressiveness, and a diabolically... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 382 pages
...these pecuniary matters in a cool realistic way, or, as we should say nowadays, in a Butlerian way : Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected...too — too long already For an estate, or cash, or country seat. Toughness, tenacity, relentless aggressiveness, and a diabolically cool remorseless wit... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - American literature - 1924 - 380 pages
...these pecuniary matters in a cool realistic way, or, 1 as we should say nowadays, in a Butlerian way: 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. Toughness, tenacity, relentless aggressiveness,... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - American literature - 1924 - 380 pages
...these pecuniary matters in a cool realistic way, or, as we should say nowadays, in a Butlerian way: Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected...some old lady Or gentleman of seventy years complete, For an estate, or cash, or country seat. Who've made "us youth" wait too—too long already Toughness,... | |
 | William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 pages
...feel better after the reading. In the next stanza, however, Byron grows" commonplace and ends with : Sweet is revenge, especially to women, Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seamen. And that is bad sentiment and worse rime, without any resemblance to poetry. The remaining stanzas... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 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. — George Gordon Byron STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA Oh, talk not to me of... | |
 | Netherlands - 1927 - 592 pages
...Utrecht, derde serie, No. 39). prijsgeld verdiend, en zooals Byron in zijn Don Juan het uitdrukte : Sweet is revenge, eSpecially to women, Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seamen Doch de smokkelhandel verminderde daarom niet. Het werd gezegd dat er, alleen reeds op het buskruit,... | |
 | John Erskine - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 328 pages
...children, the sweetness of the beauty of nature — and then by a rapid descent we read these lines: "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... | |
 | England - 1819 - 788 pages
...rural mirth ; Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps Sweet to the father U his first-bom'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... | |
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