 | Dustin Griffin - 2005 - 328 sider
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 967 sider
...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... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 270 sider
...appears as a 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... | |
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Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich 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 he routed all his... 
