 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1808 - 512 pages
...which the King chiefly delights in. Gav. I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, Musicians, that with touching of a string / May draw the pliant King which way I please. Music and poetry are his deKght ; Therefore I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 618 pages
...GOT. Do: — these are not men for me-; I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, Musiciaus, that with touching of a string May draw the pliant king which way I please : II Musick and poetry are his delight ; Therefore I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches,... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 406 pages
...monarch. His words are these; " Music and poetry are his delight. Therefore I'll have Italian masques by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows;...Like SYLVAN NYMPHS, my pages shall be clad : My men, Kke SATYRS, grazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat-feet dance the antic hay • Sometimes alovely... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1813 - 502 pages
...which the King chiefly delights in. Gav. I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, Musicians, that with touching of a string May draw the pliant King which way I please. Music and poetry are his delight ; Therefore I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Drama - 1813 - 508 pages
...Musicians, that with touching of a string May draw the pliant King which way I please. Music and poetry are his delight ; Therefore I'll have Italian masks by...night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows j And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, Like Sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad ; My men, like... | |
 | England - 1818 - 764 pages
...was to be the ruin of his King. •' I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits. Musicians, that with touching of a string. May draw the pliant King which way I please. Music and poetry are his delight ; Therefore I'll have Italian plays by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing... | |
 | 1818 - 782 pages
...pliant King which way I please. Music and poetry are Ins delight ; Therefore I'll have Italian plays by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows...walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be dad ; My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns. Shall, with their goat-feet, dance the antic hay. Sometimes... | |
 | John Nichols - England - 1823 - 710 pages
...Monarch. His words are these : " Music and poetry are his delight. Therefore I'll have Italian masques by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows...Nymphs my pages shall be clad : My men, like Satyrs, gazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat-feet dance the antic hay : Sometimes a lovely boy in Dian's... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1824 - 504 pages
...masques by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shewes. • And in die day, when he shall walke abroad, Like sylvan Nymphs my pages shall be clad, My men like Satyrs, grazing on the lawnes, Shall with their goat-feet dance the antic hay. Sometimes a Louely Boy, in Dian's shape e,... | |
 | Mac Erin O'Tara (pseud.) - Ireland - 1825 - 954 pages
...one-tenth of the island," he cried disdainfully, and spurred forward to head his cavalcade. CHAPTER IX. Sweet speeches — comedies — and pleasing shows...abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad. MARLOW'S Edward the Second. FROM the hill of Ostmantown, the Irish Tyburn of that day and the site... | |
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I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, Musicians, that with touching of a string May draw the pliant king which way I please. Music and poetry is his delight; Therefore I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows... 
