... 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 circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses The Calcutta University Calendar - Стр. xciiiавторы: University of Calcutta - 1864Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| William Coxe - 1820 - Страниц: 486
...the capture of Thebes, when, in the language of our sublime poet, " The great Emathian conqueror bid spare " The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower " Went to the ground." MILTON, Sonngt F//Z. CHAPTER 104. 1711. Marlborough proposes to besiege Quesnoy, and to maJcepre' f... | |
| Plutarch - 1822 - Страниц: 392
...(and, " as a poet, he had as good right to expect this favour as Pindar") he says, The great Emathian conqueror did spare . The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground (Sonn. viii.) Dioil. Sic. xvii. 10—13. reports many prodigies, which announced this disastrous event.... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - Страниц: 344
...we perceive the feeling he associated with this literary honour. " The great Emathian 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,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - Страниц: 272
...bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple' and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the' Athenian walls from ruin bare.... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - Страниц: 580
...devoted admirer of Homer, paid the same honour to genius, and, in the midst of 'war and vengeance, bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. This is what we receive from Greece respecting the Theban poet ; but if this were all, if we received... | |
| 1823 - Страниц: 428
...bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the muse's bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare."... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - Страниц: 426
...bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the muse's bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare."... | |
| 1823 - Страниц: 582
...devoted admirer of Homer, paid the same honour to genius, and, in the midst of war and vengeance, bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. This is what we receive from Greece respecting the Theban poet ; but if this were all, if we received... | |
| William Wyndham Grenville Baron Grenville - 1824 - Страниц: 102
...bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses bower ! The great Emathian conqueror bad spare The house of Pindarus when temple and tower Went to the ground, and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - Страниц: 510
...circle warms. Lift not tby spear against the Muses' bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare 10 The house of Pindarus, when temple' and tower Went to the ground ; and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save ui' Athenian walls from ruin bare.... | |
| |