 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 320 pagini
...warms. Lift not thy fpear againft the Mufes' bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid fpare 10 The houfe of Pindarus, when temple' and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of fad Eleftra's poet had the power To fave th' Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. To a virtuous young... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pagini
...POEMS. not thy fpear againft the Mufes' bower: The great Emathian conqueror bid fpare 10 The houfe of Pindarus, when temple' and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of fad Eleftra's poet had the power To fave th' Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. Ta a. virtuous young... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pagini
...Lift not thy fpcar againft the Mufes' bower : The great Cmathian conqueror bid fpare io The houfe uf Pindarus, when temple' and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of fad Eleilra's poet had the power To fave th' Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. To a virtuoui young... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1809 - 666 pagini
...he had as good right to en" pect this favour as Pindar'') he says, The great Emathian conqueror did spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground (Sonn. viii.) Diod. Sic. xvii. 10 — 13. reports many prodigies, which an, nounced this disastrous... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pagini
...consents to shed the blood of its' Children." You remember Milton's Sonnet — " The great Emathion 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 Thebun Bard as the snail... | |
 | Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1814 - 458 pagini
...intended to the city : " Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower; The great Ematbian conqueror bade spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. Such was the respect for genius testified by Alexander the Great : a character, which the precipitance... | |
 | Plutarch - 1816 - 348 pagini
...poet, he had as good right to expect this favour as Pindar") he says, The great Emathian conqueror did spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground (Sonn. vlii.) opposed the revolt, he sold the rest (to the number of thirty thousand) for slaves. About... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 316 pagini
...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 bard, as the snail... | |
 | William Coxe - 1819 - 734 pagini
...Telemachus, imitate Alexander, at the capture of Thebes, when, in the language of our sublime poet, " The great Emathian conqueror bid spare " The house...Pindarus, when temple and tower " Went to the ground." MILTON, Sonnet VIII. * Vie de Marlborough, vol. 3, p. 322. CHAPTER 104. 1711. Marlborough proposes... | |
 | William Coxe - 1820 - 486 pagini
...Telemachus, imitate Alexander, at the capture of Thebes, when, in the language of our sublime poet, " The great Emathian conqueror bid spare " The house...Pindarus, when temple and tower " Went to the ground." MILTON, Sonngt F//Z. CHAPTER 104. 1711. Marlborough proposes to besiege Quesnoy, and to maJcepre' f... | |
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