 Near these a nursery erects its head, Where queens are formed, and future heroes bred; Where unfledged actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy. Great Fletcher never treads in buskins...  The two Cosmos - Page 190by Cosmos - 1861Full view - About this book
 | J. Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 508 pages
...thatmonarch and uncle to the first Lord Dartmouth. Drydea speaks of it in his " Mac Flecknoe :" — "Near these a Nursery erects its head, Where Queens...future heroes bred ; Where unfledged actors learn to langh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy : Great... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pages
...76-7 are fashioned after another couplet of the same passage of the " Davideis : " I46 AfAC FLECK.VOE. Near these a Nursery erects its. head,* Where queens are formed and future heroes bred, 75 Where unfledged actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...undisturb'd by watch, in silence sleep. Near these a Nursery 4 erects its head', Where queens are form'd, and future heroes bred ; Where unfledged actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, .And little Maximins the gods defy. Great Fletcher never... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1883 - 924 pages
...Young's ; and this Dry den perceived. In his " Macflecknoe " he accordingly throws it into ridicule : " A nursery erects its head, Where queens are formed, and future heroes bred ; Where'unfledged actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little... | |
 | Archibald Constable - 1887 - 356 pages
...Don't this remind you of the lines ia Dryden's ' Mackflecknoe ' as descriptive of the work ? — " * A nursery erects its head, Where queens are formed, and future heroes bred — Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.' Apropos of lovely ladies,... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 646 pages
...mistaken, for it was so. Their play was a bad one, called Jcronimo is Mad again, a tragedy. -Pepys. Near these a Nursery erects its head, Where queens...bred, Where unfledged actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.—Dryden, MacFlecknoe.... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 640 pages
...mistaken, for it was so. Their play was a bad one, called Jeronimo is Mad again, a tragedy. —Pepys. Near these a Nursery erects its head, Where queens...formed and future heroes bred, Where unfledged actors leam to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...tender voices try. Dryden seized upon this passage and turned it into ridicule in his " MacFlecknoe:" Where queens are formed, and future heroes bred; Where unfledged actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy. A nursery erects its... | |
 | John Dryden - 1893 - 194 pages
...now, so fate ordains, Of all the pile an empty name remains. Near this a Nursery erects its head, 70 Where queens are formed and future heroes bred, Where unfledged actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy. Great Fletcher never... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...Davideis : " " Beneath the dens where unfletcht tempests lie, And infant winds their tender voices try." Near these a Nursery erects its head,* Where queens are formed and future heroes bred, 75 Where unfledged actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little... | |
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