| 1820 - 482 páginas
...Persepolis, to gratify her vile resentments. " But softly, — let us proceed without passion or prejudice : 'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : *Twas ! how prosaic < here Dryden commences with an elision, and that too, of the two poorest and... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 346 páginas
...DRYDEN. Continued. ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER or MUSIC. An Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia' t Day. 'TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's...warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were plac'd around ; Their brows with roses and with... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 páginas
...merits of this unequalled effusion of lyrical poetry, arefutty ditcussed in tke general criticism. I. 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's...warlike son : Aloft, in awful state, The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were placed around ; Their brows with roses and with... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 292 páginas
...The money was paid. ODES. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OB, THE POWER OF MUSIC. IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. TWAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's...warlike son ; Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...bottomless pit. IX. — Alexander's Feast ; or, the Power of Music. — An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day. 'TWAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's...sat On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were placM around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound ; So should desert in arms be crown'd.... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...rais'da shade from Hell, Hers lift the soul to Heav'n, POPE. CHAP. XXVII. ' ALEXANDER'S FEAST. ' 1 WAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial Throne : His valiant Peers were plac'd around ; Their brows with roses and with... | |
| 1823 - 872 páginas
...loftiness and sweetness of expression, and a most pleasing variety of numbers. 'Twas at the royal feast, by Persia won By Philip's warlike son, Aloft in awful state, The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were plac'd around ; Their brows with roses and with... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...the royal feast, for Persia woo By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in aw ful state The godlike hero sate lf mankind. All fame is foreign, but of true desert...heart Ʉ 9 ] "K TЛie lovely Ibais, by his side, Sate like a blooming eastern bride. In flower of youth and beauty's... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 páginas
...SHAB.TK. L DRYDEN. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OB, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE, IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. 'TWAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's...warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were placed around, Their hrows with roses and with... | |
| William Scott - 1825 - 382 páginas
...after them to the bottomless pit. Feast; or, the Power of Music. — An Ode -for St. Cecilia's Day. 'TWAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's...with roses and with myrtles bound; So should desert ill arms be crown'd. The lovely Thais by his side, Sat like a blooming eastern bride, In flower of... | |
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