 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1899 - 620 pages
...conscious pride of a legitimate sovereign : ' Well had I been deposed if you had reign' d ! The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal to the throne*.' The sway which he thus resigned he had exercised with an authority neither unchallenged nor well guarded... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 522 pages
...: But now, not I, but poetry is curst ; For Tom the second reigns like Tom the first* But let them not mistake my patron's part Nor call his charity...desert. Yet this I prophesy, — Thou shall be seen, Though with some short parenthesis between, High on the throne of wit, and, seated there, Not mine... | |
 | William Congreve - 1903 - 540 pages
...! that your brows my laurel had sustained, Well had I been deposed if you had reigned ! The father had descended for the son ; For only you are lineal...Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry is curst ; For Tom the second reigns like Tom the first. But let 'em not mistake my patron's part, Nor... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1905 - 524 pages
...that your brows my laurel had sustained I Well had I been deposed, if you had reigned : The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal...in his room arose : But now, not I, but poetry is curst ; For Tom the second reigns like Tom the first.1 But let them not mistake my patron's part Nor... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...O that your brows my laurel had sustained! Well had I been deposed, if you had reigned: The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal...throne. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, 45 A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry, is curst, For Tom the second reigns... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...descended for the son, For only you are lineal to the throne. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, 45 A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry, is curst, For Tom the second reigns like Tom the first. But let 'em not mistake my patron's part, Nor... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1122 pages
...state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry is curst; For Tom the Second reigns like Tom the First. But...patron's part, Nor call his charity their own desert. 50 Yet this I prophesy: thou shalt be seen (Tho' with some short parenthesis between) High on the throne... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1112 pages
...state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry is curst; For Tom the Second reigns like Tom the First. But let 'em not mistake my patron's part, NOT call his charity their own desert. 5. > Yet this I prophesy: thou shall be seen i Tlio' with some... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...was rude; And boist'rous English wit with art indued. rlO Our age was cultivated thus at length, s] d 5o Yet this I prophesy: thou shalt be seen (Tho' witli some short parenthesis between) High on the... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...that your brows my laurel had sustained ! Well had I been deposed, if you had reigned : The father had descended for the son ; For only you are lineal...in his room arose : But now not I, but poetry, is cursed ; For Tom the second reigns like Tom the first. But let them not mistake my patron's part, Nor... | |
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I been depos'd, if you had reign'd! The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal to the throne. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry is curs'd, For Tom the Second reigns... 
