 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 760 pages
...stands represented as the son of a proverbial bard, whose name gives the satire a title, and who so long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute, Through all the realms of nonsense — abiolute! This production will always be deemed unsurpassable for the keenness of its wit, the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...Flecnoe was the true name of a dull, hackneyed poetaster of the day. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 410 pages
...who, like Augustus, young, Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long : In prose and verse was own'd without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute. This aged prince, now governing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...who, like Augustus, young, Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long : In prose and verse was own'd without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute. This aged prince, now governing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...who, like Augustus, young ^aj call'd to empire, and had govern 'd long; In prow and verse was own'd, ide The lion's »elf tore out with rav'nous jaw ! Or be hlest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with bus'ness, did at length debate To lettle the succession... | |
 | 1850 - 836 pages
...himself heir to the " vacant throne" of Irish Flecknoe, " who,'1 according to a partial historian, " in prose and verse, was owned without dispute, through all the realms of nonsense absolute." The laurel wreath of Cœsar, wo are told, served to hide the baldness of its wearer's brows ; it is... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long; In prose and verse, was own'd without dispute, Through all the realms of nonsense,...absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase ; Worn out with bus'ness, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 344 pages
...satire, called Mac Flecknoe, shall remain in vogue." From this poem Pope took the hint of his Duneiad. D. Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And bless'd with issue of a large increase; Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...things are subject to decay ; And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Fleenoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire : and had governed...dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute. ( 1 ) From " Mac-Flecnoe " — ie the son of Flecnoe ; an expression employed to designate a poet of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 568 pages
...who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire, and had goyern'd long ; In prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute. This aged prince, now nourishing in peace, And bless'd with issue of a large increase ; Worn out with business, did at length... | |
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Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession of the state... 
