 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...dreams the blissful age renew, 25 ^nd call Britannia's glories back to view; Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of Commerce and the dread of...masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd, Or English honor grew a standing jest. 30 A transient calm the happy scenes bestow, And for a moment lull the... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen - English language - 1909 - 184 pages
...construction of each noun and pronoun : — 1. Happy mortals then were we, I loved Myra, Myra me. 2. A transient calm the happy scenes bestow, And for a moment lull the sense of woe. 3. The poor wren, The most diminutive of birds, will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...the blissful age renew, 25 j And call Britannia's glories back to view;' Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of Commerce and the dread of Spain, J Ere masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd, i Or English honor grew a standing jest. go A transient... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 854 pages
...Greenwich, 1533. Ere masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd,7 Or English honour grew a standing jest. 3 > Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall...all the murders of your eye, 145 When, after millio neighb'ring town. "Since worth," he cries, "in these degen'rate days, 35 Wants ev'n the cheap reward... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...Greenwich, 1533. Ere masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd,7 Or English honour grew a standing jest. 3 i absolute. This Thaïes eyes the neighb'ring town. "Since worth," he cries, "in these degen'rate days, 35 Wants ev'n... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...dreams the blissful age renew, 25 And call Britannia's glories back to view; Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of Commerce and the dread of Spain. 1 Presumably Johnson's unfortunate friend Richard Savage, the poet, who was forced to retire from London... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 858 pages
...time, one of the most fashionable streets of London. • Queen Elitabeth was born at Greenwich, 1533. x + 3) A transient calm the happy scenes bestow, And for a moment lull the sense of woe. At length awaking,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Authors, English - 1918 - 186 pages
...there ? I who can neither lie, nor falsely swear! Now compare with this passage Johnson's paraphrase : A transient calm the happy scenes bestow, And for...contemptuous frown, Indignant Thales eyes the neighbouring town.1 Since worth, he cries, in these degenerate days, Wants e'en the cheap reward of empty praise;... | |
 | Lee McCardell - Biography & Autobiography - 1958 - 352 pages
...London, that went through three editions on the strength of lamentations for Britain . . . triumphant on the Main, The Guard of Commerce and the Dread of...Masquerades debauch'd, Excise Oppress'd, Or English Honor grew a standing Jest. . . .* Letters of marque and reprisal were issued against the ships, goods,... | |
 | Terry Castle - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 420 pages
...dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view; Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce, and the dread...oppress'd, Or English honour grew a standing jest. (25-30) 35. Goldsmith, Works, I, 153. 36. Douglas, pp. 104, 113. 37. Freud, Civilization, p. 40. 38.... | |
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Thames's banks, in silent thought, we stood Where Greenwich smiles upon the silver flood; Struck with the seat that gave Eliza * birth, We kneel, and kiss the consecrated earth; In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back... 
