| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 320 pages
...warms. Lift not thy fpear againft the Mufes' bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid fpare 10 The houfe of Pindarus, when temple' and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of fad Eleftra's poet had the power To fave th' Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. To a virtuous young... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...POEMS. not thy fpear againft the Mufes' bower: The great Emathian conqueror bid fpare 10 The houfe of Pindarus, when temple' and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of fad Eleftra's poet had the power To fave th' Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. Ta a. virtuous young... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...Lift not thy fpcar againft the Mufes' bower : The great Cmathian conqueror bid fpare io The houfe uf Pindarus, when temple' and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of fad Eleilra's poet had the power To fave th' Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. To a virtuoui young... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower ! The great Emathian conqueror did 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 th' Athenian walls from ruin bare. RICHARD CRASHAW, Author of... | |
| Plutarchus - 1809 - 666 pages
...he had as good right to en" pect 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.) Diod. Sic. xvii. 10 — 13. reports many prodigies, which an, nounced this disastrous... | |
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...lands and seas-, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower ; The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The...tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save th' Athenian walls from ruin bare. XIII. ACME AND SEPTIMUS, FROM... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...sun's hright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bower : The great Emathian conquerour 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. 1 L • C7v IXXEIS. IV. SONNETS.... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bower : The great Emathian conquerour 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. s2 IV. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...not thy spear against the Muses bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pimlarus, 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. IX. «tO A VIRTUOUS YOUNO LADT.... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...consents to shed the blood of its' Children." You remember Milton's Sonnet — " The great Emathion conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus when temple and tower Went to the ground " Now though the Dusseldorf Map-maker may stand in the same relation to the Thebun Bard as the snail... | |
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