 | Plutarch - 1822 - 392 pages
...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.... | |
 | 1823 - 428 pages
...clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the muse's bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple...power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare." The second sounds like an inspiration. Milton was a religious enthusiast, as well as a grand poet. He was... | |
 | 1823 - 428 pages
...not thy spear against the muse's bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house ofPindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : and the...power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare." The second sounds like an inspiration. Milton was a religious enthusiast, as well as a grand poet. He was... | |
 | 1823 - 582 pages
...the 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 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 - 580 pages
...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 - 102 pages
...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...the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. 74 XXXV. POETA AD URBIS OPPUGNATORES. -LlUX ! miles ! quicunque feri in certamine Martis Has indefensas... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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...repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save ui' Athenian walls from ruin bare. • In the manuscript after the title, is added 164a. It was in... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...philosopher. See Pausan. Boeot. cap. 25. edit. Kuhnii. 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 th' Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. To a virtuous young Lady. LADY, that in the prime... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 394 pages
...Alexander at the capture of Thebes, when in the language of the sublime Milton, " The great Ematbian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground." CHINESE MERCHANT. A Chinese Hong merchant, of the name of Shaiking-qua, had long known Mr. Anderson,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...Muse's 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 th' Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADY that in the prime... | |
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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 circle warms. Lift not thy spear against... 
