| Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 pages
...of a barb'rousiage, ,-;': And drove tfeofb/Jfofy V&tiAals off)tht ;ftage. 1 ] But fee ! each Mufe, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her withered bays ! rj/ 5 Rome's Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins fpreadj Shakes off the duft, and rears his rev'rend... | |
| John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...shame !) Stemm'd the while torrent of a barb'rous age, 695 And drove those holy Vandals off the siage. But see ! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays ; Rome's ancient Genius o'er its rnins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...shame !)J Stemmed the wild torrent of a barb'rous age, Ajid drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see ! each muse in Leo's golden days,* Starts...its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then sculptura and her sister-arts revive; Stones leaped to form, and rocks began to... | |
| Henry Kett - 1803 - 512 pages
...of the claffic manufcripts, which were concealed in the libraries of monafteries. But fee each Mufe in Leo's golden days Starts from her trance, and trims...withered bays; Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins fpread, Shakes off the duft, and rears his reverend headf. Leo the tenth was confpicuous for his ardour... | |
| Francis William Blagdon - 1803 - 534 pages
...arrived at the age of the Fine Arts in France, and now enter the HALL OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. '• But see ! each muse in LEO'S golden days> " Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays ; " Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins, spread, " Shakes off the dust, and rears his... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...shame !) Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barb'rous age, 695 And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see ! each Muse in Leo's golden days Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays ; Rome's ancient Genius o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...useful. 47. But see ! each muse in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays : Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head.* History has recorded five ages of the world, in which the human mind has exerted itself... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...frigidly written by Knight ; although, indeed, the materials he has collected are curious and useful. 47. But see ! each muse in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her witherM bays : Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend... | |
| William Roscoe - 1806 - 580 pages
...subject may be found in a letter of Girolamo Negri, in the Lettere di Printipi, vol. 1. p. 106. (If) " But see each muse, in LEO'S golden days, " Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays ; " ROME'S ancient genius, o'er its ruins spread, " Shakes off the dust, and rears his... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...shame!) 134 Stcmm'd the wild torrent of a harharous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see ! each Muse in Leo's golden days Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd hays; Rome's ancient Genins, o'er its ruins spread, HO Shakes off the dust, and rears his... | |
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