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" Where each old poetic mountain Inspiration breath'd around; Ev'ry shade and hallow'd fountain Murmur'd deep a solemn sound: Till the sad Nine in Greece's evil hour Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrantpower, And... "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 292
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Select Poems [of Thomas Gray.]

Thomas Gray - 1880 - 164 pages
...Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, O Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. 75 So in. i. Far from the sun and...
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The English Poets: Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. IIL I. Far from the sun and summer-gale,...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 3

Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 pages
...Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. in. I. Far from the sun and summer-gale,...
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English odes, selected by E.W. Gosse

sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 308 pages
...Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, O Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. III. I. Far from the sun and summer...
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From Milton to Johnson

Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 pages
...Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. William Collins (1721-1759) was...
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English Literature An Illustrated Record in Eight Volumes.Volume III-Part II ...

1903
...Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. William Collins (1721-1759) was...
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 5

William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 pages
...evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains ; Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, O Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. So much energy did the free political...
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Odes, sonnets and epigrams

Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1907 - 308 pages
...Greece's evil hour Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, O Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. 82 Far from the sun and summer-gale,...
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The British classical authors: with biographical notices. On the basis of a ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pages
...evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, so And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion! next thy sea-encircled coast in. Far from the sun and summer-gale,...
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A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse

Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pages
...evil hour Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant-Power, 80 And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. III. 1 Far from the sun and summer-gale,...
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