 Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance, and hymeneal rite ; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming, to the nuptial bed : The youthful dancers in a circle bound To the soft flute, and cittern's silver sound...  The Works of the British Poets - Page 115by Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Homerus - 1720 - 284 pages
...hed : The youthful dancers in a circle hound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver fotmd: 575 Thro' the fair ftreets, the matrons in a row, Stand in their porches, and enjoy the fhow. There, in the Forum fwarm a num'rous train : The fuhjeft of dehate, a townfman flain : One pleads... | |
 | John Milton - Plagiarism - 1750 - 716 pages
...pomp, and genial feaft delight, And folemn dance, and hymenxal rite ; Along the flreet the new- made brides are led, With torches flaming, to the nuptial...bound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver found. And in like manner the driving away of the Iheep and oxen from forage, and the battel which thereupon... | |
 | Homerus - 1756 - 246 pages
...Here facred pomp, and genial feaft delight, And folemn dance, and Hymenaal rite ; 570 Along the ftreet the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming...bound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver found : Thro' the fair ftreets, the matrons in a row, 575 Stand in their porches, and enjoy the fhow. There,... | |
 | Dionysius (of Halicarnassus.) - Rome - 1758 - 462 pages
...that, ever, appeared in a tranflator a great deal of troubJe. any language, was written by him in 7k The youthful dancers in a circle bound, To the foft flute, and cittern s filler found : Through the fair Jlreets, the matrons in a row Stand in their porches, and... | |
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1760 - 314 pages
...this was the imagination of jfgallias Cercyreus, as wft find him cited by EuJJathius. Along the ftreet the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming...bound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver found ; Thro' the fair ftreets, the matrons in a row, 575 Stand in their porches, and enjoy thd fhow. There,... | |
 | Homer - 1773 - 234 pages
...Hymeneal rile ; Along the ftrect the new-made brides are led,With lovelies flaming, to the nuptial-bed : The youthful dancers, in a circle bound To the foft...their porches, and enjoy the (how. There, in the forum fvvarm a r.um'rbus train : The fubjeft of debate, a towuiinun i! im : One pleads the fine difcharg'd,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 422 pages
...facred pomp and genial feaft delight, .And folemn dance, ar.d Hymenaeal rite; 570 Along the ftreet the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming,...found : Through the fair ftreets, the matrons in a row 575 Stand in their porches, and enjoy the (how. There, in the forum fwann a numerous train, The fubjeft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 392 pages
...Here facred pomp nnd genial feaft delight, And folemn dance, and Hymenaeal rite; 570 Along the ftreet the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming,...in a circle bound To the foft flute, and cittern's f:lver found : Through the fair ftreets, the matrons in a row 575 Stand in their porches, and enjoy... | |
 | Martin Madan - 1781 - 422 pages
...was ufual for the parties to call their friends and neighbours together, and to make Along the ftreet the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming, to the nuptial bed. POPE. So VIRGIL, Eel. viii. ver. 29. Mspfe novas incide faces ; tibi ducitur uxor. prepare the lights,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1784 - 372 pages
...Here facred pomp, and genial feaft delight, And folemn dance, and hymeneal rite ; Along the ftreet the new-made brides are led, ' With torches flaming...bound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver found. PoPIŤ that Vtda was merely fanciful, when he fuppofed firgil endeavouring to reprefent by uncommon... | |
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