 War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the...  Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review - Seite 5551859Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Epy Lovell - 1843 - 524 Seiten
...pity melts the soul to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honor but an empty...destroying. If the world be worth thy winning, Think, Oh ! think it worth enjoying ; Lovely Thais sits beside thee ; Take the good the gods provide thee.—... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, ha with his clouted shoon : And yet more med'cinal is it than that moly, That Hermes once to wise 0 think, it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais sits beside thee. Take the good the gods provide thee. The... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 Seiten
...pity molts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. + NCa f o Ǒ p { D t l Q` ڊJ / [ ֞ ` f ( 3$ E1 | Y, ' lM q# s О H Hghting still, and still destroying ; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 Seiten
...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; Honor but an empty...destroying. If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh, think it worth enjoying ! Lovely Thais sits beside thec : Take the good the gods provide thee ;... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 Seiten
...pity melts the soul to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honor but an empty...destroying. If the world be worth thy winning, Think, Oh ! think it worth enjoying ; Lovely Thais sits beside thee ; Take the good the gods provide thee.... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 Seiten
...Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour, but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning,...destroying, If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying ! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - 1844 - 324 Seiten
...golden cups are kissed by the brave to the health of the fair. The epicureanism of the precept — N 3 If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying — is hardly more voluptuously breathed in glorious John Dryden's familiar couplet, than, in spite... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 Seiten
...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; Honor but an empty...destroying. If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh, think it worth enjoying ! Lovely Thais sits beside thee : Take the good lhe gods provide thee ;... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 Seiten
...in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed Ms soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning,'...worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying : Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the skies with... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 352 Seiten
...to love. Gayety. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. Dignity. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honor, but an...still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. Gayety. If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying ! Lovely Thais sits beside... | |
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