 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 Seiten
...powers hath a true consent With pinner, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptr'd pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelop's line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the huskin'd stage. But, O sad Virgin, that thy power... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 Seiten
...power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes', or Pelop's line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But, O sad Virgin, that thy power... | |
 | Samuel Davey - 1879 - 302 Seiten
...melted away into the solemn silence of eternity. "Then sometime glorious tragedy In sceptred pall came sweeping by, Presenting Thebes' or Pelop's line, Or the tale of Troy divine." Then came dreams of Oriental imagery, with all the horrors and antipathies of Asiatic life. He says... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1884 - 456 Seiten
...Ismene. Compare Milton's lines in II Pensereeo, 1. 96-100 — Some time let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptered pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelop's line, Or the tale of Troy divine. — ED. 1 1836 Beyond these humble graves, of grievous crimes And strange disasters ; * but I pass... | |
 | Albert Hamann - 1886 - 44 Seiten
...Plato's immortal pages may absorb the interest of the reader or ,,gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall comes sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelop's line, Or the tale of Troy divine;" or the sweet unfinished tale of Spenser ,,of forests and enchantments drear Where more is meant than... | |
 | John Milton - 1925 - 442 Seiten
...power hath a true consent With Planet, or with Element. Sometime let Gorgeous Tragedy In Scepter'd Pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes', or Pelop's line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the Buskin'd stage. But, O sad Virgin, that thy.... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1911 - 332 Seiten
...Purgatory and the citadels of Paradise. It was the same with the drama. Tragedy with sceptered pall came sweeping by, Presenting Thebes or Pelop's line, Or the tale of Troy divine, or the Wars of the Roses, or the exploits of Moor and Christian under old Andalusian walls, or the... | |
 | 1845 - 960 Seiten
...Sometimes let gorgeous Tragedy, In sceptered pall come aweeping by, Presenting Thebes', or Pelopi' lino, Or the tale of Troy divine.' " " The first thought...to the form in which I painted it in the cartoon." The original preparatory sketch of the Muses is altogether different from that which was adopted. The... | |
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I might oft outwatch the Bear With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook. Sometime let gorgeous tragedy In sceptered... 