 | John Bell - 1777 - 644 pagine
...with a purple grace, He shews his honest face. Now give the hauthoys breath. He comes ! he comes ! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first...Sweet the pleasure; Sweet is pleasure after pain. CHORDS. " Bacchus' blessings are a treasure; " Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : " Rich the treasure,... | |
 | 1801 - 416 pagine
...'d with a purple grace, He shews his honest face. Now give the hauthoys breath. Hecomes! he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first...pleasure after pain.' CHORUS. " Bacchus' blessings are a treasoia ; . " Drinking is the soldier's pl«asuie: . . " Rich the treasure, " Sweet the pleasure ;... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pagine
...sing the jovial god of wine, he very judiciously changes the measure into the brisk trochaic. Bdcchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain....Sweet the pleasure». Sweet is pleasure after pain. Again, when he describes his hero as wrought up to madness, and setting fire to the city in a fit of... | |
 | 1810 - 566 pagine
...measure also is contrasted, and the poet now assumes the brisk trochaic. " Bacchus, ever fair and ever young-, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus'...Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain." This social scene is happily contrasted with the melancholy fate of Darius, and both the sentiments... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pagine
...brisk trochaic. Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bacchus' blessings dre ,a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich...Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain, Again, when he describes his hero as wrought up to madness, and setting fire to the city in a fit of... | |
 | David Humphreys - 1804 - 440 pagine
...'d with a purple grace, He shows his honest face. Now give the hautboys breath. He comes, he comes! Bacchus ! ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first...Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. > ^ iv. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain, Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pagine
...he comes, he comesj Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus' blessing are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure...Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. 4Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain : Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pagine
...comes, he comes! Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus' hlessings arc a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich...Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his hattles o'er again : And thrice he routed... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pagine
...Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face. Now give the hauthoys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first...Sweet the pleasure; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his hattles o'er again: And thrice be routed... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 pagine
...hautboys breath; he comes, he comes, Bacchus ever fair and young Drinking joys did first ordain. Bacchus's blessings are a treasure ; Drinking is the soldier's...pleasure after pain. Chorus : Bacchus' blessings, etc. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he... | |
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Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes. Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus... 
