 E'en yet majestical : the solemn scene Elates the soul, while now the rising Sun Flames on the ruins in the purer air Towering aloft upon the glittering plain, Like broken rocks, a vast circumference ! Rent palaces, crush'd columns, rifled moles, Fanes...  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 131by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1755 - 356 pages
....again, and foar a loftier flight ; Lo the refiftlefs theme, imperial Rome. Fall'n, fall'n, a filent heap ; her heroes all Sunk in their urns ; behold the pride of pomp, The throne of nations fall'n ; obfcur'd in duft ; v Ev'n yet majeftical : the folemn fcenc Elates the foul, while now the... | |
 | 1758 - 352 pages
...again, and foar a loftier flight; Lo the refiftlefs theme, imperial Rome. Fall'n, fall'n, a filent heap ; her heroes all Sunk in their urns ; behold the pride of pomp, The throne of nations fall'n ; obfcur'd in duft ; Ev'n yet majeftical ; the folemn fcene Elates the foul, while now the rifmg... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...again, and foar a loftier flight ; Lo the refifllefs theme, imperial Rome. FalPn, fall'n, a filent heap ; her heroes all Sunk in their urns ; behold the pride of pomp, The throne of nations fall'n ; obfcur'd in duft ; Ev'n yet majeftical : the folemn fcene Elates the foul, while now the rifing... | |
 | John Dyer - English poetry - 1761 - 196 pages
...again, and foar a loftier flight ; Lo the refiftlefs theme, imperial Rome. Fall'n, fall'n, a filent heap ; her heroes all Sunk in their urns ; behold the pride of pomp, The throne of nations fall'n ; obfcur'd in duft ;, Ev'n yet majeftical : the folemn fcene Elates the foul, while now the... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 392 pages
...again, and foar a loftier flight ; Lo the refiftlefs theme, imperial Rome ! Fall'n, fall'n, a filent heap ; her heroes all Sunk in their urns ; behold the pride of pomp, The throne of nations fall'n •, obfcur'd.in dull; Ev'n yet majeftical •, the folemn fcene Elates the foul, while now... | |
 | Collection - 1766 - 356 pages
...again, and foar a loftier flight ; Lo the refiftlefs theme, imperial Rome ! FalPn, fall'n, a filent heap ; her heroes all Sunk in their urns ; behold the pride of pomp. The throne of nations fall'n ; obfcur'd in duft ; Ev'n yet majeftical ; the folemn fcene Elates the foul, while now the rifing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 368 pages
...again, and foar a loftier flight ; Lo the refiftlefs theme, imperial Rome. Fall'n, fall'n, a filent heap ; her heroes all Sunk in their urns; behold the pride of pomp, The throne of nations fall'n ; obfcur'd in duft ; Ev'n yet majeftical i the folemn fcene Slatei the foul, while now the rifing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 410 pages
...again, and foar a loftier flight; Lo the refiftlefs theme, imperial Rome. Fairn, fall'n, afilentheap; her heroes all Sunk in their urns ; behold the pride of pomp, The throne of nations fall'n ; obfcur'd in duft ; Ev'n yet majefticali the folemn fcene Elates the foul, while now the riiing... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 544 pages
...Love-whifp'ring woods, and lute-refounding waves, &c. % But to return to Dyer, V, 1 6. Fallen, fallen, a filent heap ; her heroes all Sunk in their urns ; behold the pride of pomp, The throne of nations fallen ; obfcur'd uxdufti Even yet majeftical : the folemn fcene Elates the foul, which now the rifmg fun... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 270 pages
...again, and foar a loftier flight; Lo the refiftlefs theme, imperial Rome. Fall'n, fall'n, a filentheap; her heroes all Sunk in their urns; behold the pride of pomp, The throne of nations fall'n; obfcur'd in duft; Ev.'n yet majeftical: the folemn fcene Elates the foul, while now the rifmg... | |
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