...began to live; " With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; " A RAPHAEL painted and a ViDA sung. " Immortal ViDA ! on whose honour'd brow " The poet's bays and critic's ivy grow; " Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, " As next in place to Mantua, next in fame." CHAP, excellent...

...the first regular and perfect dramas that are to be found since the barbarous and obscure ages.* 4?. Immortal VIDA ; on whose honour'd brow The Poet's bays and Critic's ivy grow.f The merits of Vida seem not to have been particularly attended to in England, till POPE had...

...rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung ; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung : Immortal Vida ! on whose honour'd brow The poet's bays and critic's ivy grow ! Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, As next in place to Mantua, next in fame ! But soon by impious...

...rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung ; A Raphael p.iinted, and a Vida sung. Immortal Vida ! on whose honour'd brow The poet's bays and critic's ivy grow. Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, As next in place to Mantua, next in fame. Tt ¡s enough to sny...

...rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung ; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung. Immortal Vida: on whose honour'd brow The poet's bays and critic's ivy grow : Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, As next in place to Mantua, next in fame ! But soon, by impious...

...rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung : Immortal Vida! on whose honour'd brow The poet's bays and critic's ivy grow! Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, As next in place to Mantua, next in fame ! But soon by impious...

...Tooks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung ; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung. phœnix-like, beneath her eye, Involv'd in fragrance, burn and die. Know, h : Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, As next in place to Mantua, next in fame ! But soon, by impious...

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...rocks began to live: With sweeter notes each rising temple rung ; Л Raphael painted, and a Vida sung. : Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, As next in place to Mantua, next in fame ! But soon by impious...

...poets. Pope, however, does not seem to allow this ; and he gives the plant expressly to critics : — " Immortal Vida, on whose honour'd brow The poet's bays and critic's ivy grow." The priests of the Greeks presented a wreath of ivy to newly married persons, as a symbol of the closeness...