| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 páginas
...cans' J his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again : 22 th, no pride, no joy he hath : O leaden-hearted men...death ! " Ah ! what avail the largest gifts of Heave fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago. Ere heaving bellows leam'd to blow, While organs yet were mute... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 páginas
...glittering temples of their hostile gods! The princes applaud, with a furious joy; And the king seiz'da flambeau, with zeal to destroy : Thais led the way,...To light him to his prey; And, like another Helen — fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 páginas
...Persian abodes And glittering temples of the hostile gods ! The princes applaud with a furious joy, And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to destroy...prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy." CHAPTER XIII. OF EPIC POETRT. Q. What rank does the Epic hold in poetry? A. It generally occupies the... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 páginas
...Persian abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods ! The princes applaud, with a furious joy ; And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to destroy...prey ! And, like another Helen, fired another Troy ! DRYDEN. ARIEL'S SONG. Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie ; There I couch... | |
| Leonhard Schmitz - 1844 - 458 páginas
...latter, she hides herself from the vengeance of the Trojans. See 11. 571-4. The verses in Dryden's Ode, Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy, probably allude to the incident in the 6th jEneid, but Virgil does not represent Helen as actually... | |
| Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 páginas
...pavilion of Alexander's triumph? Yes: audits remains stand the memorial of his wantonness, hence " Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy." Let us walk to the southern extremity of the eastern colonnade ; an immense mound of ruins meets the... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...Princes applaud, with a furious joy ; Aiid the king seiz'da flambeau, with zeal to destroy ; Thaïs sound, Over some widc-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roa fir'd another Troy. i Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, i While organs yet were mute,... | |
| General reciter - 1845 - 348 páginas
...abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods ! The princes applaud, with• a furious Joy; And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy...bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute ; Timothens, to his breathing flute, And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 páginas
...The princes applaud, with a furious joy; [stroy: And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to deThais led the way, to light him to his prey; And. like another...Troy. Thus, long ago, ere heaving bellows learned to While organs yet were mute; [blow, Timotheus, to his breathing ñute and sounding lyre, Could swell... | |
| Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 348 páginas
...glittering temples of their hostile gods. Earnest Description. 10. The princes applaud, with a furious joy ; And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to destroy ; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey ! Energy and Dignity. And, like another Helen, fired — another Troy. Narrative. 11. Thus, long ago,... | |
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