 | English poets - 1801 - 382 páginas
...well bent ; I must say so, lest I be shent. [From Eyrd's Sonnets and Pastorals, 1588.] WHAT pleasures have great princes More dainty to their choice, Than herd-men wild, who careles* In quiet life rejoice; And fortune's favours scorning, O* Sing sweet in summer morning. All... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 472 páginas
...and Songs of Sadnes and Fietie, made into " mosicke of five partcs." By W. Byrd, 1588.] WHAT pleasure have great princes More dainty to their choice Than...who careless In quiet life rejoice, And fortune's favours scorning * Sing sweet in summer-morning ? ****** All day their flocks each tendeth, At night... | |
 | Thomas Lyle - 1827 - 272 páginas
...follies try, To play with fools, oh, what a fool was I! WHAT PLEASURE HAVE GREAT PRINCES. WHAT pleasure have great princes, More dainty to their choice, Than...all deceit; They never know how spiteful It is to kneel and wait On favourite presumptuous, Whose pride is vain and sumptuous. All day their flocks each... | |
 | Ancient ballads - 1827 - 270 páginas
...humour ease; And then we say, when we their follies try, WHAT PLEASURE HAVE GREAT PRINCES. WHAT pleasure have great princes, More dainty to their choice, Than...all deceit; They never know how spiteful It is to kneel and wait On favourite presumptuous, Whose pride is vain and sumptuous. All day their flocks each... | |
 | Musa, Thomas Oliphant (president of the Madrigal society) - 1837 - 520 páginas
...their choice, Than herdmen wild, who careless In quiet life rejoice ; And fickle fortune scorning, Sing sweet in summer morning ? Their dealings plain...all deceit ; They never know how spiteful It is to kneel, and wait On favorites presumptuous, Whose pride is vain and sumptuous. All day their flocks... | |
 | Thomas Oliphant - 1837 - 376 páginas
...hands full, with travail " and vexation of spirit." — Eccles. ii. 6. * Envy. III. What pleasures have great princes More dainty to their choice, Than...herdmen wild, who careless In quiet life rejoice ; And fickle fortune scorning, Sing sweet in summer morning ? Their dealings plain and rightful Are void... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1839 - 390 páginas
...HERDSMAN'S HAPPY LIFE. " What pleasure have great Princes More dainty to their choice, Than herdsmen wild — who careless In quiet life rejoice ? And...all deceit ; They never know how spiteful It is to kneel and wait On favourite presumptuous, Whose pride is vain and sumptuous. " All day their flocks... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1842 - 410 páginas
...great princes More dainty to their choice, Than herdsmen wild — who careless In quiet life rejoice T And fortune's fate not fearing, Sing sweet in summer...all deceit ; They never know how spiteful It is to kneel and wait On favourite presumptuous, Whose pride is vain and sumptuous. " All day their flocks... | |
 | George Ellis - 1845 - 410 páginas
...and Songs of Sadnes and Pietie, made into musicke of five partes." By W. Byrd, 1588.] WHAT pleasure have great princes More dainty to their choice Than...herd-men wild, who careless In quiet life rejoice, 1 This title is from England's Helicon, in which the poem is said to be taken " out of M. Bird's Set... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...Sony. [From the same.] What pleasure have great princei More dainty t'o their choice, Than herdsmen scaly people to betray, We'll prove it just, with...bait, To make the preying trout our prey ; And think sumptnoul. All day their flocks each tendetb. All night they take their rest, More quiet than who scndcth... | |
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WHAT pleasure have great princes More dainty to their choice, Than herdmen wild, who careless .In quiet life rejoice, And Fortune's fate not fearing Sing sweet in Summer morning. Their dealings plain and rightful Are void of all deceit ; They never know... 
