 | English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...taper's trembling light, I feem thofe awful fcenes to tread Where chiefs or legiflators lie, Whofe triumphs move before my eye In arms and antique pomp array'd ;. While now I tafte the Ionian fong, Now bend to Plato's god-like tongue Refounding through the olive ftiade. •... | |
 | T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 pages
...taper's trembling light, I feem thofe awful fcenes to tread Where chiefs or legiftators lie, 65 Whofe triumphs move before my eye In arms and antique pomp array'd ; While now i tafte the Ionian fong, Now bend to Plato's godlike tongue Refounding through the olive fhade. 70 VIII.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...taper'fc trembling light, i i'eem thoie awful fcenes to tread Where chiefs or legiilators lie, Whofe triumphs move before my eye In arms and antique pomp array'd ; While now I tafte the Ionian long, Now bend to Plato's god-like tongue Rciounding through the olive {hade. VIII.... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1807 - 254 pages
...the wintry night. Spent with the old illustrious dead! •While, by the taper's trembling light, I seem those awful scenes to tread Where chiefs or legislators...pomp array'd ; While now I taste the Ionian song, "Nuw bend to Plato's godlike tongue Kesounding through the olive shade. VIII. But should some cheerful,... | |
 | Mark Akenside, Thomas Park - 1808 - 358 pages
...wears the wintry night, Spent with the old illustrious dead ! While, by the taper's trembling light, I seem those awful scenes to tread Where chiefs or legislators...cheerful, equal friend, Bid leave the studious page awhile, Let mirth on wisdom then attend, And social ease on learned toil. Then while, at love's uncareful... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...wears the winU-ry night, Spent with the old illustrious dead! While, by the taper's trembling light, I t of Eton College suggests nothing to Gray which every...docs not equally think and feel. His supplication to shadeBut should some cheerful, equal friend Did leave the studious page a while, Let Mirth on Wisdom... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...wears the wintery night, Spent with the old, illustrious dead! While, by the taper's trembling light, I .seem those awful scenes to tread Where chiefs or...godlike tongue Resounding through the olive shade. VIH. But should some cheerful, equal friend Bid leave the studious page awhile, Let mirth on wisdom... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1835 - 416 pages
...wears the wintry night, Spent with the old illustrious dead ! While, by the taper's trembling light, I seem those awful scenes to tread Where chiefs or legislators...godlike tongue Resounding through the olive shade. VIII. But should some cheerful, equal friend Bid leave the studious page awhile, Let mirth on wisdom... | |
 | Christianity - 952 pages
...confounded." The poet says, How pleasing wean the wintry night, Spent with the old illuitrioiu dead ; While now I taste the Ionian song, Now bend to Plato's...godlike tongue. Resounding through the olive shade. Of a celebrated personage performing a most perilous voyage, it is said: " He through the shock Of... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1838 - 352 pages
...wears the wintry night. Spent with the old illustrious dead ! While, by the taper's trembling light, I seem those awful scenes to tread Where chiefs or legislators...godlike tongue Resounding through the olive shade. 70 VIH. But should some cheerful, equal friend Bid leave the studious page awhile, Let mirth on wisdom... | |
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... springs Through this majestic frame of things, Beyond what he can reach to know ; And that Heaven's all-subduing will, With good, the progeny of ill, Attempereth every state below. 
