 | Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long - English poetry - 1902 - 432 pages
...Augustus, young Was call'd to empire and had govern'd long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute 5 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... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 590 pages
...Was called to Empire, and had governed long ; 1 Anne, daughter and heiress of the Duke of Buccleuch. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute. Feeling his powers decay, Flecknoe devolves his empire on Shadwell, and the poem describes the ceremonies... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - English literature - 1904 - 534 pages
...things are subject to decay ; And when fate summons, mpnarchs 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 412 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1905 - 522 pages
...things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe1 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... | |
 | John Dryden - Poetry - 1905 - 196 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... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - Fiction - 1905 - 368 pages
...where in biting verse he describes Flecknoe (who was happily dead) as an aged Prince — " Who like Augustus young Was called to empire and had governed...dispute, Through all the realms of nonsense absolute." Dryden goes on to picture the aged Flecknoe, " pondering which of all his sons was fit To reign and... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - Fiction - 1905 - 258 pages
...where in biting verse he describes Flecknoe (who was happily dead) as an aged Prince — " Who like Augustus young Was called to empire and had governed...dispute, Through all the realms of nonsense absolute." Dryden goes on to picture the aged Flecknoe, " pondering which of all his sons was fit To reign and... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - Fiction - 1905 - 264 pages
...where in biting verse he describes Flecknoe (who was happily dead) as an aged Prince — " Who like Augustus young Was called to empire and had governed...without dispute, Through all the realms of nonsense ahsolute." Dryden goes on to picture the aged Flecknoe, " pondering -which of all his sons was fit... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 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... | |
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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... 
