 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 oldal
...bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower ! The great Emathian conqueror did spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save th' Athenian walls from ruin bare.... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1809 - 666 oldal
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 oldal
...bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower ; The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save th' Athenian walls from ruin bare.... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 oldal
...bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bower : The great Emathian conquerour bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground: And the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 oldal
...hright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bower : The great Emathian conquerour bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : And the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...the capture of Thebes, when, in the language of our sublime poet, " The great Emathian conqueror bid spare " The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower " Went to the ground." MILTON, Sonnet VIII. * Vie de Marlborough, vol. 3, p. 322. CHAPTER 104. 1711. Marlborough proposes... | |
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... 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 circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses 
