 ... running all beside, Make a long row of goodly pride, Figures, conceits, raptures, and sentences, In a well-worded dress, And innocent loves, and pleasant truths, and useful lies, In all their gaudy liveries.  Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets - Page 113by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 pages
...well-worded Dress. And innocent Loves, and pleasant Truths, and useful Lies, In all their gaudy liveries. Mount, glorious Queen, thy travelling throne, And...way, And life, alas, allows but one ill winter's day. Where never foot of man, or hoof of beast The passage prest. Where never fish did fly, And with short... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 pages
...well-worded Dress. And innocent Loves, and pleasant Truths, and useful Lies, In all their gaudy liveries. Mount, glorious Queen, thy travelling throne, And...way, And life, alas, allows but one ill winter's day. Where never foot of man, or hoof of beast The passage prest. Where never fish did fly, And with short... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1927 - 968 pages
...complete re-perusal of his works, for which, alas ! I have no leisure. " For long, though pleasant, is the way, And life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day." Which is too literally my own case. January 11. — Kenewed my labour, finished the review, talis quails,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...well-worded dress. And innocent loves, and pleasant truths, and useful lies, In all their gaudy liveries. Mount, glorious queen, thy travelling throne. And...way, And life, alas, allows but one ill winter's day. Where never foot of man, or hoof of beast, 20 The passage press 'd, Where never fish did fly, And with... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 pages
...well-worded dress. And innocent Loves, and pleasant Truths, and useful Lies, In all their gaudy Liveries. Mount, glorious Queen, thy travelling Throne, And...cheerful, is the way, And Life, alas, allows but one ill winters Day. II Where never Foot of Man, or Hoofoi Beast, The passage prest, 1 Where never Fish did/7y.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1905 - 484 pages
...well-worded dress. And innocent Loves, and pleasant Truths, and useful Lies, In all their gaudy Liveries. Mount, glorious Queen, thy travelling Throne, And...cheerful, is the way, And Life, alas, allows but one ill winters Day. 2. Where never Foot of Man, or Hoof of Beast, The passage prest, 1 Where never Fish did... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...liveries. Every mind is now disgusted with this cumber of magnificence ; yet I cannot refuse myself the four next lines. Mount glorious queen, thy travelling...throne, And bid it to put on ; For long though cheerful a the way, And life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day. In the same ode, celebrating the power... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 820 pages
...well-worded drefs ; [Lyes, And innocent Loves, and pleafant Truths, and uieful In all their gaudy liveries. Mount, glorious Queen ! thy travelling throne, And bid it to put on ; For long, though chearful, is the way, And life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day. Where never foot of man, or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 474 pages
...Mount, glorious qneeaV thy travelling throne, • r. i •• And bid it to put on ; ,i /Mtii'j .'.*.• For long though cheerful is the way, And life, alas ! allows but one ill winter s day. In the same ode, celebrating the power of the Muse, he gives her .prescience, or, in... | |
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