| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...feast, for Persia won, By Philip's warlike sou : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero bate On bis choice, When-ill the danger almost pois'd the honour : And, as he rose, the day grew b myrtle bound ; So should desert in arms be crown'd. The lovely Thnïs by his side Sat, like a blooming... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 Seiten
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, MIRTH, with thee I mean to live. xv. — ALEXANDER'S FEAST. at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son — Aloft, in awful state. The god-like hero sat On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtle... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 Seiten
...and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long, and this new world shall know. MlLTOK. TWAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son. Aloft in awful state, The godlike hero sat On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...nuperceived decay, And steal myself from life, and melt away. [State of Innocence.] ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 'T was at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's warlike...were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound; So should desert in arms be crown'd. The lovely Thais by his side Sat, like a blooming... | |
| John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 Seiten
...the charming air repay, Shook thousand odors from his dewy wings. COLLUPS, ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 'T WAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike...sate On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound ; So should desert in arms be crowned.... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 Seiten
...ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 'T was at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in uwful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne:...were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound; So should desert in arms be crown'd. The lovely Thais by his side Sat, like a blooming... | |
| William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 Seiten
...rais'da shade from Hell, Hers lift the soul to Heav'n. PorE. CHAPTER XXVII. : ALEXANDER'S FEAST. ' 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate The lovely Thais by his side Sat, like a blooming eastern bride, In flow'r of youth, and beauty's pride.... | |
| John Dryden - 1852 - 378 Seiten
...her own perish'd race, Herself becomes the sepulchre of what she was. ALEXANDEB'S FEAST. 1697. 'Twas at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's warlike...bound; So should desert in arms be crown'd : The lovely Thais, by his side, Sat, like a blooming eastern bride, In flow'r of youth and beauty's pride. Happy,... | |
| 1852 - 874 Seiten
...spicy shore. ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE IN IIONOR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAf 'TWAS attend My dissolution." Michael Thais, by his side, Sate, like a blooming eastern bride, In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy,... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 Seiten
...fame. CAMPBELL. XIX.—Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Music. An Ode for St. Cecilia'* Day. 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son—, Aloft, in awful state, The godlike hero sat On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were plae'd around; Their brows with roses and with myrtle... | |
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