| British poets - 1822 - 320 páginas
...Genius weep, But hear hisdeath, ye blockheads! hear and sleep. The festal blazes, the triumphal show, The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's...Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For such the steady Romans shook the world; For such in distant lands the Britons shine, And stain with... | |
| 1822 - 292 páginas
...Genius weep, B ut hear his death, ye blockheads! hear an d sleep. The festal blazes, the triumphal show, The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's thanks, the gazette's pompous tale, ^Vith force resistless o'er the brave prevail. Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For such... | |
| Minstrel - 1824 - 246 páginas
...Genius weep, But hear his death, yc hlockheads, hear and sleep. The festal hlazes, the trinmphal show, The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's...gazette's pompous tale, With force resistless o'er the hrave prevail. Such hrihes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For such the steady Romans shook the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 páginas
...Genius weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep. * The festal blazes, the triumphal show, The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's...Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For such the steady Romans shook the world ; For such in distant lands the Britons shine, And stain with... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 páginas
...sleep. X 2 SECTION X. TJie vanity of human wishes, continued. The festal blazes, the triumphal show, The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's...Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For such the steady Romans shook the world ; For such in distant lands the Britons shine, And stain with... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 páginas
...genius weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep. 'The festal blazes, the triumphal show, The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's...Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd ; For such the steady Romans shook the world ; For such, in distant lands, the Britons shine, And stain with... | |
| Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 páginas
...the old city, you fancy that they check your pride. / • " The festal blazes, the triumphal show, The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's...Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd. For such the steady Romans shook the world. ****** This power has praise, that virtue scarce can warm,... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 464 páginas
...Genins weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads ! hear and sleep. The festal blazes, the trinmphal show, The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's...Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For such the steady Romans shook the world ; For such in distant lands the Britons shine, And stain with... | |
| Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 páginas
...the old city, you fancy that they check your pride. . . i " The festal blazes, the triumphal show, The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's...Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For such the steady Romans shook the world. »***#*#« This power has praise, that virtue scarce can warm,'... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 páginas
...But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep. ) 'The festal blazes, the triumphal show, \ j •/ The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's thanks, the gazette's pompous tale, With force resistfess o'er the brave prevail. Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd ; . For such the steady... | |
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