 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 344 pagini
...In the grandeur of Milton's verse we perceive the feeling he associated with this literary honour. " The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of...when temple and tower Went to the ground ." And the meanest things, the very household stuff, associated with the memory of the man of genius, become the... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 392 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. viii.) Dioil. Sic. xvii. 10—13. reports many prodigies, which announced this disastrous event.... | |
 | 1823 - 582 pagini
...the devoted admirer of Homer, paid the same honour to genius, and, in the midst of war and vengeance, bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. This is what we receive from Greece respecting the Theban poet ; but if this were all, if we received... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 580 pagini
...devoted admirer of Homer, paid the same honour to genius, and, in the midst of 'war and vengeance, bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. This is what we receive from Greece respecting the Theban poet ; but if this were all, if we received... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 394 pagini
...Alexander at the capture of Thebes, when in the language of the sublime Milton, " The great Ematbian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground." CHINESE MERCHANT. A Chinese Hong merchant, of the name of Shaiking-qua, had long known Mr. Anderson,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pagini
...and seas, Whatever clime the sun's brig.ht circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bow'r: The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple' and tow'r Went to the ground : And the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the pow'r To save th' Athenian... | |
 | TREUTTEL - 1828 - 794 pagini
...storm of war; for by Buonaparte's orders a guard was placed before his house for its protection. " The great Emathian Conqueror bid spare The house of...Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground." • " Wic die Natur (lie iiiiiii; ri'iclie brust," &c. Next morning Marshal Ney waited on him in person.... | |
 | John Williams - 1830 - 368 pagini
...his brother bard : "Lift not thy spear against the muse's bower. Tiie great Emathian conqueror bad spare The house of Pindarus when temple and tower Went to the ground." We involuntarily invest a nation with a species of existence independent of the ever-shifting individuals... | |
 | Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1832 - 280 pagini
...phraseology of the passage, are from Milton's noble Sonnet, " When the assault was intended to the city." " The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple' and tow'r Went to the ground." CONVERSATION XXXI. CHRIST AT BETHANY. A. WE have now to accompany our blessed... | |
 | 1833 - 428 pagini
...servant of the muses — that The great Œinnthian. connueror bade враге The house of Pindarus, wnen temple and tower Went to the ground ; and the repeated air Of sad Electrn's poet hud the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin hare — but by the more solid inducements... | |
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If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright... 
