| Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...the treasure, Sweet the pleasure; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound the King grew vain, Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice...routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. All, all of a piece throughout: Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing about; Thy... | |
| T. S. Eliot - 1997 - 146 pages
...magnificence, as in "Alexander's Feast": — Sooth 'd with the sound the king grew vain; Fought all his hattles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The great advantage of Dryden over Milton is that while the former is always in control of his ascent,... | |
| John Horgan - 2000 - 340 pages
...of Dryden's line about Alexander the Great refighting all his battles during a drunken monologue — And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain — life is just too short for occupying oneself with the slaying of the slain more than twice." Gould... | |
| Dustin Griffin - 2005 - 332 pages
...heroics. Like Dryden's Alexander, who under the influence of drink and song "Fought all his Ban ails o'er again" ("And thrice He routed all his Foes; and thrice he slew the slain"),12 Goldsmith's homefront combatants "bravely become votaries for their country, and with true... | |
| John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...Sweet is pleasure after pain. IV Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his batiks o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and...thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise,0 His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes;0 70 And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand,... | |
| T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 300 pages
...delicate flavour to the magnificence, as in "Alexander's Feast": Sooth'd with the sound the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.23 elected a perch from which he cannot afford to fall, and from which he is in danger of slipping.... | |
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