| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1783 - 504 pages
...wiiclt heads and nobleft hearts. Not fuch as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as (he bred when frefli and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets (hall be fung. Weftward the courfe of empire takes its way ; The four firft aels already pad, A fifth... | |
| 1783 - 1276 pages
...wifefl heads and nobleft hearts ! Notfuch ai Europe breeds inner decay ;— Snch as (he bred when frefh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets ihall be fung. Weftward the ftar of empire takes its way ; The four ii. .1 a£b already pad ; A fifth... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 552 pages
...The pedantry of courts and schools: There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Why thy painful point intrude, Or plant a moment's anguish there? Round her form and waving tresses... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...The pedantry of courts and schools. There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts ; The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. * Vide Biographia Britannica, vol. iii. Corrigenda prefixed. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay,... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...The pedantry of courts and schools. There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts ; The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. * Vide Biographia Britannica, vol. iii. Corrigenda prefixed. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay,... | |
| Johann Gottfried Herder - Aesthetics - 1806 - 432 pages
...pedantry ol' courts and schools : There shall b« sung another golden agt, the rise of empire and of arts, the good and great inspiring epic rage, the wisest heads and noblest hearts. Kot such as Europe breeds in her decay} such as she bred, when fresh and young, when heav'nly flame... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 506 pages
...The pedantry of courts and schools. There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The...shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way : persuasions as will keep one of the first men in this kingdom for learning and virtue quiet at... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 404 pages
...The wisest heads and noblest hearts. * Vide Biographla Britannic*, vol. iu. Corrigenda prefixed. iNot such as Europe breeds in her decay, ' Such as she...shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way : ... The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...The pedantry of courts and schools. There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts ; The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. future age will, perhaps, acknowledge the old conjunction of the prophetic character with that of the... | |
| George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The...shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its wav S^^^^JJ^BBi**'""' " • IH u*l III \0* »!• * in -ri-Jr— j.jjjam.mii-T - ii— ' " •" The... | |
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