 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pagini
...While nymphs take treats, or assignations give, So long my honour, name, and praise shall live! 170 What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date,...the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 pagini
...bed, i jo While visits shall be paid on solemn days, When num'rons wax-lights in bright order blaze, While nymphs take treats, or assignations give, So...What time would spare, from steel receives its date, U5 And monuments, like men, submit to fate ! Steel did the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pagini
...While nymphs take treats, or assignations give, So long my honour, name, and praise shall live !' iro What Time would spare, from steel receives its date,...the gods destroy, And strike to dust th} imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pagini
...submit to Fate ! 460 Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound,...arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hair should feel 465 The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel ? CANTO IV. BUT anxious cares the pensive... | |
 | James Davies - 1876 - 202 pagini
...submit to fate. Steel could the labours of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound,...arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph, thine hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel?" The tress proceeds to describe her... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pagini
...in bright order blaze, While nymphs take treats, or assignations giv 'So long my honor, name, arid What (hough no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a y» nr later of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial powers of Troy , Steel could the works of... | |
 | Alfred John Church - 1876 - 356 pagini
...submit to fate. Steel could the labours of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound,...arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph, thine hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel?" The tress proceeds to describe her... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1877 - 564 pagini
...birds delight in air, Or in a coach and six the British Fair, As long as Atalantis shall be read, *** .What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date,...the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, m And hew triumphal arches to the ground.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pagini
...While nymphs take treats, or assignations give, So long my honour, name, and praise, shall live !' 170 What time would spare, from steel receives its date,...the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial powers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, 175 And hew triumphal... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1878 - 322 pagini
...lady's bed ; While visits shall be paid on solemn days, When num'rous wax lights in bright order blaze ; While nymphs take treats or assignations give, So...the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial tow'rs of Troy. Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches... | |
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What time would spare, from steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial powers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal... 
