Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares... History of English Literature - Page 43by Hippolyte Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...»ith love and wine at once oppress'd, ""•jiiih'd victor sunk upon her breast Now strike the golden Unchang'd by fortune, to their sovereign true, For which their manly legs are bound with blue. These lib' a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark, the horrid sound Has rais'd up his head ! As awak'd from... | |
| English literature - 1820 - 608 pages
...is, we had dropped over, the ding-dong sing-song of these kst verses fairly overcame us — " Burst his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder," (cried Jannes) — What have we got here ? Edit. 0 ! a poem which lately came into my hands, and is... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...love and wine at once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast. VI. Now strike the golden lyre again ; A louder yet, and yet a louder strain....stares around. Revenge, revenge ! Timotheus cries, See the furies arise ; See the snakes, that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...love and wine at once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast. VI. Now strike the golden lyre again ; A louder yet, and yet a louder strain....dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge, revenge ! Tirnotheus cries, See the furies arise ; See the snakes, that they rear, How they hiss in their hair,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...sunk upon her breast. Now strike the golden lyre again : A louder yet, and yet a louder strain. • 3 Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like...peal of thunder. Hark, hark, the horrid sound Has rais'd up his head ! As awak'd from the dead, And amaz'd, he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast. Now strike the golden lyre again ; And louder yet, and yet a louder strain. Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him like a milling peal oi thunder. Hark, hark, the horrid sound Has rais'd up his head ; As awak'd from the dead,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...prince, &c. Now strike the golden lyre again ; Л louder yet, and yet a louder strain. Break his bands ul sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark ! hark ; the horrid sound, Pías raib'd up his head, As awake from the dead, And amaz'd he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...and wine at once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor — sunk upon her breast. Now, strike the golden lyre again ; A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ; Break his bands of sleep-asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark ! hark ! — the horrid sound Has... | |
| Martin MacDermot - English literature - 1824 - 604 pages
...felt in perusing the above passage from Pope, with the following from Dryden. Now strike the golden lyre again, A louder yet, and yet a louder strain,...raised up his head, As awaked from the dead ; And amaz'd he stares round. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries : See the furies arise, See the snakes that... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast. Now strike the golden lyre again : A londer yet, and yet a londer strain. Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse...head, As awaked from the dead, And, amazed, he stares round. Revenge, revenge, Timothens cries, See the furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How... | |
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