 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 Seiten
...avos. These four Latin verses form the context now before us. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by; Presenting Thebes, or Pelops* line, Or the Tale of Troy divine. In Paradise Regained, he particularises the lofty grave tragedians of Athens. B. iv. 266. And these... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...air, flood, or under ground. Whose power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Sometime eel the like thy state descries. Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me, I Pelope' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 Seiten
...placet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy 111 sccpter'd pall come sweeping by, rVi«iung Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what (though rare) of later age EaaabJed hath the buskin'd stage. O sad virgin, that thy power raise Musa-us from his bower ! the soul... | |
 | 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 - 1827 - 650 Seiten
...not to be distinguished from the solenm measures of that elder sister, who, in uniform state, came ' sweeping by, Presenting Thebes or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ;' — while the higher manners of the novel never require more than the grace of a romantic interest,... | |
 | 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 - 1827 - 648 Seiten
...not to be distinguished from the solemn measures of that elder sister, who, in uniform state, came ' sweeping by, Presenting Thebes or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ;' — while the higher manners of the novel never require more than the grace of a romantic interest,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptered pall come sweepmg by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops's lme, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, O sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Mussus from his bower ! Or bid the soul... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...Whose power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops'...divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled liatli the bnskined stage. But, O sad virgin ! that thy power Might raise Musteus from his bower, Or... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 Seiten
...power hath a true consent 94 With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, 100 75 wide-water'd'] Constable's Son. Ellis's Spec. ii. p. 305. ' Or like the echo of a passing bell,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 Seiten
...eyes.— Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In BcepterM pall come twecping by, Presenting Thebes or Pelopv1 line, Or the tale of Troy divine; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled bath the bnskin'd stage. — /.' Perutroso. arts. IT was during the festival of Zylophory, or of wood-carrying,... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1833 - 394 Seiten
...corresponding to the expressive touches of Milton's portraiture : Sometimes let gorgeous tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. This restriction of subjects was a necessary consequence of the circumstances in which Greece was at... | |
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Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did... 
