 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...destroying: If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying ! Lovely Thais fits befide thee, Take the good the gods provide thee, The many rend the flues with loud applaufe ; So love was crown'd, but mufic won the caufe. The prince, unable to conceal... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...sound to move ; For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble...winning, Think, O, think it worth enjoying ! Lovely Thai's sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the skies with loud applause... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...la tendresse, La pitié dispose à l'amour. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures , Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble...thy winning Think, o think it worth enjoying. Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee. Take the good the Gods provide thee. The many rend the skies with loud applause.... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...still destroying , If the world be worth thy winning Think , o think it worth enjoying. Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee. Take the good the Gods provide thee....many rend the skies with loud applause. So love was crown'd , but music won the cause. The Prince , unable to conceal his pain , Gaz'd on the fair "Who... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...sung, is toil and trouble; Honour hut an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting (till, and still destroying: If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O, think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thai's sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.— The many rend the skies with loud... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...Lydian measures, Soon" he sooth'd his. soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Honor but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning,...Fighting still, and still destroying : If the world fee worth thy winniiig, Thing, O think it worth enjoying. Lovely Thais sits beside thee ; Take the... | |
 | Young gentleman - 1807 - 314 pages
...deftroying : If the world he worth thy winning. Think, O think it worth enjoying ! Lovely Thais fits hefide thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the skies with loud applaufe ; So Love was crown'd, hut Mufic won the caufe. The Prince, unahle to conceal his pain, Gag'd... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...kindred-sound to move, . For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures: War, he sung, is toil and trouble;...the skies with loud applause ; So Love was crowned, hut Music won the cause. The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gazed on the fair, Who caused his... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...move : i?or pity melts the mild to love. ' £ Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War he sung is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty buble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying : If the world be worth... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures : War, he sung, is toil and trouble;...many rend the skies with loud applause ; So love was crown'd, but music won the cause. The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair, Who cani'd... | |
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Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble... 
