 List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...  The soldier of fortune - Page 279by Henry Curling - 1843Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 pages
...were made a prelate. Let him but talk of any state-affair, You'd say it had been all in all his study. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot...Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, stands still — but, ere you have time to answer him, he is off like a shot,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...were made a prelate. Let him but talk of any state-affair, You'd say it had been all in all his study. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot...Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, stands still — but, ere you have time to answer him, he is off like a shot,... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 338 pages
...been all-in-all his study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The...gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his gai ter ; that, when he speaks. The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...DIXitN's, 19, Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR or THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT PEEL. " Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter." SUAKSTEARE. FOLJ.OWING up the intention expressed in our last number, we have selected for the subject... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 pages
...his study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in musick : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still6, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 602 pages
...his study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in musick : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, 9 Never came reformation in a fiood,] Alluding to the method by which Hercules... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 pages
...perfect horn-book for the use of the minister, and the instruction of rising politicians. LORD ERSKINE. " Turn him to any cause of policy, The gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter." " Whenhe speaks, the air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 996 pages
...his study : List bis discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rcnder'd you in musick : no l * Fumnar aa his garter ; that, when he speaks, Toe air, a cbartcr'd libertine, is still, Aad the mute... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...been all in all his study. List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music. Turn him to any cause of policy, The...Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still ; And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honey... | |
 | Charles Chadwicke Jones - 1828 - 458 pages
...been all in all his study: List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The...knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's... | |
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