 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pàgines
...of celestial race : And he commits the crime, who calls him base. DRYDEN. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 'TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike...sate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were placed around ; Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound, (So should desert in arms be crowned):... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pàgines
...ALEXANDER'S FEAST, OR THE POWER OF MUSIC. least, 0r % foiM of AN ODE -IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. 'T WAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike...sate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were placed around'; Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound. (So should desert in arms be crowned... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 350 pàgines
...mankind. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OB, THE FOWER OF MUSIC; AJI ODE IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. 'T WAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike...(So should desert in arms be crown'd.) The lovely Thais, by his side, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride 10 In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy,... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pàgines
...than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's warlike...were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound ; So should desert in arms be crown 'd. The lovely Thai's by his side Sat, like a blooming... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 318 pàgines
...Aloft, in awful state, The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne; His valiant peers were placed around; Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound : (So should desert in arms be crowned.) The lovely Thais, by his side, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride, In flower of youth and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 380 pàgines
...ODE, IN HONOUR OF ST CECILIA'S DAY. 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 myrtles bound (So should desert in arms be crown'd).... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pàgines
...and left him there — As if his rest had been a breathing sleep. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. BY DRYDEN. 'TWAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike...sate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound ; (So should desert in arms be crowned.)... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pàgines
...rising sun, For at dawning to assail ye, Here no bugles sound reveille." SCOTT. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike...sate On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound So should desert in arms be crown'd. The... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pàgines
...— Aloft, in awful state, The godlike hero sat On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound ; So should desert in arms be crowned. The lovely Thais, by his side, Sat like a blooming Eastern bride, In flower of youth, and... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pàgines
...as " The Bacon of the rhyming crew." ALEXANDER'S FEAST, An Ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day. 'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike...with myrtles bound, — So should desert in arms be crown d : The lovely Thais, by his side, Sate, like a blooming eastern bride, In flower of youth and... | |
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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... 
