 | Thomas Warton - 1762 - 286 pages
...antique Babel, emprefle of the Eaft, Upreard her buildinges to the threat ncd fkies ; And fecond Babell, tyrant of the Weft, Her ayry towers upraifed much...the earth did feare, .And buried now in their own allies ly, Yet ftiewing by their heapes how great they weate : •Siit in their place doth now a third... | |
 | Francis Godolphin Waldron - Cramp-rings - 1792 - 356 pages
...antique Babel, Emprefle of the Eaft, Upreard her buildinges to the threatned fkie : .And Second Babcll tyrant of the Weft, Her ayry Towers upraifed much...weight of their own furquedry, They both are fallen f, that all the earth did feare, See alfo. Uem. 3. 9. 45. Ruims of Rome. 81.4. and Ruines ofTime* St.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 594 pages
...antique Babel, Emprefle of the Eaft, Upreard her buildinges to the threatned ikie : And fecond Babell, Tyrant of the Weft, Her ayry towers upraifed much...earth did feare, And buried now in their own afhes ly ; III. 12. meere] Abfohte, entire. So, in the Faerie Queene, he has " mere compalfion." See alfo... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 354 pages
...the West, » Her ayry towers upraised much more high ; But, with the weight of their own surquedry, They both are fallen, that all the earth did feare, And buried now in their own ashes ly, Yet shewing by their heapes how great they weare ;"• But in their place doth now a third... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...of the west, Her ayry towers upraised much more high. But, with the weight of their own surquedry, They both are fallen, that all the Earth did feare, And buried now in their own ashes ly ; Yet shewing, by their hcapes, how great they were. But in their place doth now a third appeare,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 518 pages
...tyrant of the West, Her ayry towers upraised much more high. But with the weight of their own surquedrie They both are fallen, that all the earth did feare, And buried now in their own ashes lye ; Yet shewing by their heapes how great they were. But in their place doth now a third appeare,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...of the West, Her ayry towers upraised much more high. But, with the weight of their own surquedry, They both are fallen, that all the earth did feare, And buried now in their own ashes ly; Yet shewing, by their heapes, how great they were. But in their place doth now a third appeare,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1825 - 450 pages
...of the West, Her ayry towers upraised much more high. But, with the weight of their own surquedry, They both are fallen, that all the earth did feare, And buried now in their own ashes ly ; Yet shewing, by their heapes, how great they were. But in their place doth now a third appeare,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 442 pages
...of the West, Her ayry towers upraised much more high. But, with the weight of their own surquedry, 2 They both are fallen, that all the earth did feare, And buried now in their own ashes ly; Yet shewing, by their heapes, how great they were. But in their place doth now a third appeare,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 600 pages
...of the West, Her ayry towers upraised much more bi^h. But, with the weight of tlieir own surquetlry, They both are fallen, that all the earth did feare, And buried now in their own ashes Iv ; Yet shewing, bv their heapes, how great they were. But in their place doth now a third appeare,... | |
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Yet shewing, by their heapes, how great they were. But in their place doth now a third appeare, Fayre Venice, flower of the last worlds delight; And next to them in beauty draweth neare, But farre exceedes in policie of right. 
