 | William Alfred Jones - 1847 - 322 pages
...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...power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. The Sonnet is, perhaps, the most artificial form of poetry, and, in consequence, the most difficult to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bower : The great Emathian t, my espous'd, my latest found, Heav'n's last best...; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tende [On the Maisacre nf tlte Protestante in Piedmont.'] Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 380 pages
...consents to shed the blood of its children." You remember Milton's sonnet — " The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus when temple and tower Went to the ground" 4 Now, though the Dusseldorf map-maker may stand in the same relation to the Theban bard, as the snail,... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 pages
...not thy spear against the Muses' bower The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarns, when temple and tower Went to the ground ; and the repeated air Of sad Elcctra's poet had the power To save th' Athenian walls from ruin bare." His next remove was to a house... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 562 pages
...in hit VHItb. Sonnet. Lift not thy spear against the MHM*' bower : The great Emathian conqueror hade spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the pround : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian wnlls from rum... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 420 pages
...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...the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. TO THE LADY MARGARET LEY. DAUGHTER to that good earl, once president Of England's council and her... | |
 | William Coxe - 1848 - 504 pages
...Alexander, at the capture of Thebes, when in the language of our sublime poet, " The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground." MH.TOK, Son,,ft vIII. CHAP. CIV. — CLOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN. — 1711. view he had sent proposals to... | |
 | University magazine - 1849 - 836 pages
...bright circle warms. ' Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower : The great Emathian conqueror bade spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower...power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare." In the year 1621, when Sir Thomas lost two sons at Frankenthale, he was also tried by the death of... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1849 - 530 pages
...Muse's how'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." 1 Special Passages ; Lord Nugent's Hampden ; Bulstrode's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...not thy spear against the Muse's bower: The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindams, when temple and tower Went to the ground : And the repeated air Df sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bore. [On the Massacre of... | |
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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... 
