 | Henry Alford - 1841 - 272 pages
...of a kingly soul Lifted to heaven by unexampled woe ! CHAPTER X. EURIPIDES.—THE ALCEST1S. * * * * the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. Milton. Sonnets. As Greece is wonderful among nations, so Athens was wonderful in Greece. In poetical,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 740 pages
...It is written what Alexander did, in the destruction of Thebes ; "The great Emathian Conqueror bade spare The house of Pindarus- when temple and tower Went to the ground." And even the rude Spartans made obeisance to the literary superiority of a vanquished rival. 1841.] Necessity... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...the Muses' 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 the Athenian walls from ruin bare." On the 25th of August, 1642, the King erected his... | |
 | 1842 - 414 pages
...clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thv spear against the Muses' bower : The great fcmathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple...the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. For the present we shall omit any further researches into the history of the sonnets, or extracts from... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bovver : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple...and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air TO THE LADY MARGARET LEY. DAUGHTER to that good earl, once president Of England's council and her treasury,... | |
 | Henry Wood (Yorkshire journalist.), Henry Wood (Yorkshire journalist) - 1843 - 154 pages
...might long since have been pulled down to give place to some petty improvement ; the conqueror of old " Bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground." But the callousness of the Englishman bids spare no place. London has the appearance of anything rather... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...conqueror5 bid spare The house of Pindarus,6 when temple and tower Went to the ground: and the repeated7 air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls8 from ruin bare. Milton 1 And the might, SfC. — This couplet forms a splendid close to the... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 pages
...HISTORIC RUINS. '« Sjotufe at Htlrolmau. " Lift not thy spear against the Muses' home, The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus when temple...the ground ; and the repeated air Of sad Electra's port had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare." MILTON. THERE are few ruins in Ireland... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 530 pages
...June, l 533. His decease, his fond biographers have told us, 1 " The great Emathian conqueror bade spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground," &c. took place " about three in the afternoon ;" and he was " aged fifty-eight years, eight months,... | |
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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... 
