 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1906 - 318 pages
...monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire and had govern'd long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute...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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...time one of his keenest satires, entitled " Mac Flecknoe." Flecknoe, who had governed long, and — "In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute," at length decides to settle the succession of the state, — " And, pondering, which of all his sons... | |
 | 1862 - 612 pages
...ground. On all alike the poet emptied the vials of his wrath in his Mac-Flecknoe, a poor writer, who "In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute ;" and to whom Dryden declares that Shadwell, who had taken part in the general crusade against him,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 794 pages
...things are subject to decay ; And when fate summons, monarch« must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire and had governed...long ; In prose and verse was owned without dispute Throughout the realms of nonsense absolute." It is but fair, however, to remark, that clever and effective... | |
 | George deF. Lord - Poetry - 1963 - 608 pages
...of reciting, and numerous plays, only one of which was produced. He lives chiefly in Dryden's lines: In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of nonsense, absolute. 37. Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), dramatist and patentee of the King's Playhouse, of whom Denham wrote:... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...things are subject to decay And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. 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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire, and had govem '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, Wom out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 362 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 Non-sense,...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... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. 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... | |
 | W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 pages
...things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: 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... | |
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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... 
