 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 572 páginas
...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...repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the pow'r To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.' On the 25th of August, 1642, the King erected his standard on Nottingham... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 604 páginas
...clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bow'r : The great Kmathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple...repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the pow'r To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.' On the 25th of August, 1642, the King erected his standard on Nottingham... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 600 páginas
...thy s|»ear against the Muses' bow'r : The great Kmathian conqueror hid spare The house of I'indarus, when temple and tow'r Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Klectra's poet had the pow'r To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.' On the 25th of August, 1(542,... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1859 - 654 páginas
...destruction had swept over the city, and Thebes, except one dwelling, disappeared from the earth. " The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground." The captives, men, women, and children, were sold as slaves, but some few... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 490 páginas
...77, note. — ED. of Milton's verse 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... | |
 | Severn river - 1859 - 408 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | 1860 - 996 páginas
...verse in a sonnet by Milton shows the feeling this sublime poet connected with literary honour — "The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground." Too little respect for antiquity and for the abodes of genius has, in our... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 336 páginas
...commemorated by Milton, — the fierceness of Spartan and Macedonian warfare checked by verse, when "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 savfr ill' Athenian... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 páginas
...seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower: TKc great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Elect ra's poet had the power To (are the Athenian... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 páginas
...seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. T.ift not thy spear against the Muses' bower : Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. J. Milton ON HIS BLINDNESS When I consider how my... | |
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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 
