 | Tibullus - 1759 - 468 sider
...ELEGIA In Life's laft Scene what Prodigies furprize, Fears of the Brave, and Follies of the Wife ; From Marlborough's Eyes the Streams of Dotage flow, And Swift expires a Driv'ler and a Show. Its great Beauty will, it is prefumed, excufe the Length of this Quotation. »6.... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 sider
...gulfs of Fate. From Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By Solon cantion'd to regard his end ; In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears...dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious lor her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 sider
...last scenes what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave and follies of the wise. Krom Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show." Besides the pieces printed in this collection and the two orations we have mentioned, Mr. Sewall published... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 sider
...gulfs of Fate. Frorn Lydia's monarch shouid the search descend, By Solon caution'd to regard his end ; In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears...dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 sider
...gulfs of Fate. From Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By Solon caution'd to regard his end ; In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears...wise ? From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage And Swift expires a driveller and a show. [flow, The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 sider
...uncommon for such men to become efféle, to sink into inanity ? Alas ! no: From Marlborough's eyes see streams of dotage flow ; And Swift expires, a driveller and a show ! Nebuchadnezzar, however, did not expire a driveller; his health was restored to him; he resumed his... | |
 | H. R. Duff - 1815 - 572 sider
...Johnfon's lines on this great man were too true : " In life's last scenes what prodigies surprize, " Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise. " From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage flow." 10 NO.LXXIV. l • No.LXXIV. Lord Lovat to Mr. Duncan Forbes. My dearest General,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 sider
...gulfs of fate — From Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By Solon cautioned to regard his end, In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears...dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller, and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face— Yet Vane could... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 sider
...in his ' Vanity of Human Wishes,' has Johnson associated this noblman with his elegiac lampooner : ' In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears...flow, And Swift expires — a driveller and a show.' easiness, as if he anticipated what was to happen to himself. No sooner was his death announced, than... | |
 | 1817 - 314 sider
...gulfs of Fate. From India's monarch should the search descend, By Solon caution'd to regard his end ; In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears...wise ? From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage And Swift expires a driveller and a show. [flow, The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Beg ' for... | |
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Solon caution'd to regard his end ; In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. 
