| Old Humphrey - London (England) - 1799 - 372 pages
...only arm that could shake them asunder—the arm of the Holy One. " Not all proud Thebes' unrivaU'd walls contain, The world's great empress, on th* Egyptian plain; That spreads her conquest o'er a thousand slates, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Five hundred horsemen... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1802 - 356 pages
...Diospolis and then Thebes. Its opulence and power were singularly great. Not all proud Thebes' unrivaU'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th" Egyptian...o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through an hundred gates. Two hundred horsemen and two hundred cars. From each wide portal issuing to the wars.... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...tides of wealth that crown ' That many-peopled Orchomenian town; 499 ' Not all proud Thehes' unrivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th' /Egyptian...conquests o'er a thousand states, ' And pours her heroes thro' a hundred gates, ' Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars ' From each wide portal issuing... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...golden tides of wealth that crown The many-peopled Orehomcnian town ; Not all proud Thebes' nnrivnll'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th' .Egyptian...plain, (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand stau s, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars, From... | |
| Benjamin Stillingfleet - Natural history - 1811 - 522 pages
...change his purpose. " Not all proud Thebes' unrivall'd walls contain, The world.s great empress on the Egyptian plain, That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours, her heroes through an hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars, From each wide portal issuing to the... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...kunilredgates. The ideas are inseparable. four thousand cities which the Nile waters in its course. " Not all proud Thebes unrivalled walls contain, The...conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes thro" a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to... | |
| Herodotus - 1812 - 478 pages
...perhaps be given, than by the following lines translated from Homer: Not all proud Thebe's unrivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th' ^Egyptian plain, That spreads her conquest o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred giites; Two hundred horsemen,... | |
| Greek literature - 1813 - 350 pages
...Orchomeniaii town ; Not all proud Thebes' uni ivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on the' Egyptian plain, (That spreads her conquests o'er a...hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen and two hundred oars From each wide portal issuing to the wars) [more Though bribes were heap'd on bribes, in number... | |
| Herodotus - Greece - 1814 - 422 pages
...the ./Egyptiaft coast is three thousand six hundred stadia; from the Not all proud Thebe's imrivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th' Egyptian plain, That spreads her conquest o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates; Two hundred horsemen,... | |
| Charles Leonard Irby, James Mangles, John Barker - Egypt - 1823 - 626 pages
...Pope's translation of the passage, and then add a few observations which occurred to me on the spot. " Not all proud Thebes' unrivalled walls contain, "...spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, " And poura her heroes through a hundred gates, " Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars, " From each... | |
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