 | British poets - 1809 - 526 էջ
...last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ? From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious lor her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 էջ
...last scenes what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave and follies of the wise. Krom Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show." Besides the pieces printed in this collection and the two orations we have mentioned, Mr. Sewall published... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 էջ
...last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ? From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 էջ
...uncommon for such men to become efféle, to sink into inanity ? Alas ! no: From Marlborough's eyes see streams of dotage flow ; And Swift expires, a driveller and a show ! Nebuchadnezzar, however, did not expire a driveller; his health was restored to him; he resumed his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 էջ
...last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller, and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face— Yet Vane could... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 էջ
...last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ; From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires — a driveller and a show.' easiness, as if he anticipated what was to happen to himself. No sooner was his death announced, than... | |
 | Charles Edward Dodd - 1818 - 540 էջ
...gentleman's appearance. But his great ancestor himself might have lived to a similar end. " From Marlbro's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show." From Heilbron to Neckar Gemiind the open fertile country presents nothing beyond that mediocrity of... | |
 | David Osgood - 1824 - 486 էջ
...heroes have sunk into imbecility, and become ideots under the age of fourscore. " From M arlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires, a driveller and a show." Jf these evils should be in a good measure escaped ; yet when men are destitute of true religion, old... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 էջ
...last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could... | |
 | William Crafts - 1828 - 450 էջ
...of his early associates. He might have furnished a sad commentary for the Poet. "From Marlbrough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show." The destinies of WASHINGTON were with his God, but his memory is with his country. His life, on earth,... | |
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In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. 
