 ... did thee ever please, 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....  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 911865Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 pages
...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 th' Athenian... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 316 pages
...nation makes war, and 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" Now though the Dusseldorf map-maker may stand in the same relation to the Theban... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...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... | |
 | William Coxe - 1819 - 734 pages
...Telemachus, imitate 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." MILTON, Sonnet VIII. * Vie de Marlborough, vol. 3, p. 322. CHAPTER 104. 1711.... | |
 | William Coxe - 1820 - 486 pages
...Telemachus, imitate 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." MILTON, Sonngt F//Z. CHAPTER 104. 1711. Marlborough proposes to besiege Quesnoy,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 344 pages
...In the grandeur 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... | |
 | 1823 - 428 pages
...and seas, Whatever 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 and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 426 pages
...and seas, Whatever 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 and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...and seas, Whatever clime the sun's brig.ht circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the 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... | |
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