 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 284 ページ
...Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase: When love was all an easy Monarch's care; 1 Seldom at council, never in a war: Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ; 2 Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit: The Fair sate panting at a Courtier's play, 540... | |
 | John Walker - 1904 - 814 ページ
...POPB. To sing those honours you deserve to wear, And add new lustre to her silver ttar. — POP». When love was all an easy monarch's care, Seldom at council, never in a war.— POPS. Fame I foresee will make reprisals then, And the translator's palm to me trantftr. — FBXTOH.... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 ページ
...In the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thrived with large increase: When love was all an easy monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war : Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit : The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 204 ページ
...the fat age of pleasure wealth and ease Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase: 535 When love was all an easy Monarch's care; Seldom at...wits had pensions, and young Lords had wit: The Fair sate panting at a Courtier's play, 540 And not a Mask went unimprov'd away:. The modest fan was lifted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 174 ページ
...the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thrived with large increase : When love was all an easy monarch's care; Seldom at council, never in a war: Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit : The fair... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 ページ
...In the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thrived with large increase: When love was all an easy monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war : Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit: The fair... | |
 | Maurice Enright - 1908 - 248 ページ
...perception of the word love than as applied to parental affection. CHAPTER IV. Ezekiel Jones Turns Informer 'When love was all an easy monarch's care; Seldom at council, never in war; Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ: Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 422 ページ
...brilliant passage the poet holds up to condemnation the licentious times that followed the Restoration : When love was all an easy monarch's care; Seldom at Council, never in a war. Jilts ruled the State, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit The fair... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 ページ
...Restoration : When love was all an easy monarch's care ; Seldom at Council, never in a war. Jilts ruled the State, and statesmen farces writ ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit 1 Pope himself seems to have been blinded by Granville's rank to the weakness of Granville's verse.... | |
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Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love. In the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprang the rank weed, and thrived with large increase: When love was all an easy... 
