 Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 2451826Full view - About this book
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...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 ; Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If the world be worth thy winning,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...and fall. Shalttfeare. Then a loldiei, Seeking the bubble reputation, Even in the cannon's month. Id, War, he sung, is toil and trouble. Honour but an empty bubble, Fighting still, and still destroying. Dryden. Still bubble on, and pour forth blood and tears. Id.... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Byzantine Empire - 1830 - 618 pages
...«roXXaj 4/u^aj avSgs/aj Tim; airfOreiXev sij''AS>jv. In this, which is exactly the metre of Dryden's War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Honour but an empty bubble ; the classical ear of the' English student will scarcely recognize the lofty MIJVIV HM= flea of its... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in 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, Fighting still, and still destroying. If the world be worth thy winning,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...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 ; Honour, but an empty bubble ; 100 Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying : If the world be worth thy... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweot, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. 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 winningt... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...melts the mind to love*. Softly sweet', in Lydian measures', Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures* j 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... | |
 | Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 pages
...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, Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying: If the world be worth thy winning,... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in 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, Fighting still, and still destroying, If the world be worth thy winning,... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, 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,' Fighting still, and still destroying ; If the world be worth thy... | |
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