 If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright...  The American Monthly Magazine - Стр. 1051838Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Charles Bucke - 1839 - Страниц: 406
...capture of Thebes, when, in the language of our sublime poet (Milton), ' The great Emathian conqueror did spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.' " — We have now — though with reluctance— to record an almost unparalleled instance of duplicity... | |
 | James Francis Hollings - 1840 - Страниц: 94
...the midst of the intoxication of successful vengeance against a hated city, let us remember that " the great ^Emathian conqueror bid spare The house...when temple and tower Went to the ground — " and that the Roman general who had entered Athens at the head of his victorious legions, and was deluging... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - Страниц: 462
...Milton's verse we perceive the feeling he associated with this literary honour — " The great Ematbian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus when temple and tower Went to the ground ." And the meanest things, the very household stuff, associated with the memory of the man of genius, become the... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - Страниц: 452
...the grandeur of Milton's verse we perceive the feeling he associated with this literary honour — " The great Emathian conqueror bid spare . The house...when temple and tower Went to the ground ." And the meanest things, the very household stuff, assor ciated with the memory of the man of genius, become... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - Страниц: 740
...It is written what Alexander did, in the destruction of Thebes ; "The great Emathian Conqueror bade spare The house of Pindarus- when temple and tower Went to the ground." And even the rude Spartans made obeisance to the literary superiority of a vanquished rival. 1841.] Necessity... | |
 | Henry Alford - 1841 - Страниц: 272
...of a kingly soul Lifted to heaven by unexampled woe ! CHAPTER X. EURIPIDES.—THE ALCEST1S. * * * * the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. Milton. Sonnets. As Greece is wonderful among nations, so Athens was wonderful... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - Страниц: 918
...and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bow'r: The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tow'r Went to the ground: and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the pow'r To save the Athenian... | |
 | 1842 - Страниц: 414
...clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thv spear against the Muses' bower : The great fcmathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple...Electra's Poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. For the present we shall omit any further researches into the history of the... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - Страниц: 364
...seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bovver : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of...and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air TO THE LADY MARGARET LEY. DAUGHTER to that good earl, once president Of England's council and her treasury,... | |
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