 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1910 - 220 páginas
...by the exquisite absurdity of three lines. " Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals." Where to procure better verses the treasurer did not know. He understood how to negotiate a loan, or... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 páginas
...instances these lines from one of the poems: — " Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals." ^J— -^numble lodgings and asked him to write a poem in honor the battle. Addison took the town by... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 páginas
...instances these lines from one of the poems : " Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals." The Chancellor of the Exchequer went to Addison 's humble lodgings and asked him to write a poem in... | |
 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - 1913 - 668 páginas
...exuberant lines about the Battle of Blenheim : " Think of two thousand gentlemen at least. And each man mounted on his capering beast. Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals," and how, according to Phillips, Marlborough, seeing where the violence of Tallard most prevailed, vanquished... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 páginas
...by the exquisite absurdity of three lines. ' Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals.' Where to procure better verses the Treasurer did not_know. He understood how to negotiate a loan, or... | |
 | 1894 - 926 páginas
...a strange unevenness of execution. They do not seem to have caught any apprehension of that subtile quality which should distinguish even the humblest...to us ; for instance, this passage from the epic of Nievius on the Punic war : — " The Romans cross to Malta, harry the place With fire and sword, settle... | |
 | 1894 - 908 páginas
...a strange unevenness of execution. They do not seem to have caught any apprehension of that subtile quality which should distinguish even the humblest...to us ; for instance, this passage from the epic of Nsevius on the Punic war : — " The Romans cross to Malta, harry the place With fire and sword, settle... | |
 | 1910 - 738 páginas
...the exquisite absurdity " of these lines : — Think of two thousand gentlemen at leant. And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals. C'an any one give me information as to the poem it-self ? PCG Calcutta. I seek the sources of the following... | |
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One of these poems has been rescued from oblivion by the exquisite absurdity of three lines: " Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals. 
