 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1870 - 524 ページ
...the progress of his hearse. But what of that? his friends may say, He had those honors in his day ; True to his profit and his pride, He made them weep before he died. It is pleasant to contrast this fierce satire of Swift with the delicate pleasantry of Addison.... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 322 ページ
...the progress of his hearse. But what of that? his friends may say, He had those honors in his day ; True to his profit and his pride, He made them weep before he died. It is pleasant to contrast this fierce satire of Swift with the delicate pleasantry of Addison.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 ページ
...the progress of his hearse. But what of that ? his friends may say, He had those honours in his day. True to his profit and his pride, He made them weep before he died. Come hither, all ye empty things ! Ye bubbles raised by breath of kings ! Who float upon the... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 ページ
...the progress of his hearse. But what of that ? his friends may say He had those honours in his day. True to his profit and his pride, He made them weep before he died. Come hither, all ye empty things ! Ye bubbles raised by breath of kings ! Who float upon the... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 426 ページ
...the progress of his hearse. But what of that? his friends may say He had those honours in his day, True to his profit and his pride, He made them weep before he died. * Compare The Fanciad, an Heroic Poem (1743) : No hackneyed Plunger, Mine — no Birth-Day Drone.... | |
 | Shane Leslie - 1928 - 384 ページ
...impugning his courage in his unpublished History and in a poem forbidding widows and orphans to sigh: "True to his profit and his pride, He made them weep before he died. Come hither, all ye empty things! Ye bubbles raised by breath of kings ! Who float upon the tide... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 ページ
...near; Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear: A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General 16 d make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day. That Faustus state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's... | |
 | Austin Clarke - 1995 - 422 ページ
...the progress of his hearse. But what of that, his friends may say, He had those honours in his day. True to his profit and his pride, He made them weep...rais'd by breath of Kings; Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's... | |
 | Greg Harkin - 2001 - 340 ページ
...the progress of his herse. But what of that, his friends may say, He had those honours in his day. True to his profit and his pride, He made them weep before he dy'd. (Poems 1:296) The people who made the Duke's fame now unmake it. Swift uses a similar strategy in "The... | |
 | 1764 - 782 ページ
...friends may fay, He had thofe honours in his day ; True to his profit and his pride, He made thena weep before he dy'd. Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of, kings, Who ftoat upon the tide of (late, Come hither, and behold your fate : Let pride be taught by this rebuke,... | |
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But what of that, his friends may say, He had those honours in his day. True to his profit and his pride, He made them weep before he dy'd. 
