 The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name: In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight pale antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the...  The Arminian Magazine: Consisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on ... - Page 52by John Wesley - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'dr And little Eagles wave their wings in gold. 30 The Medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view subjected to our eye Gods, Emp'rors, Heroes, Sages, Beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold. The medal,...faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages hears еасЪ form and name : In one short view subjected to oar eye, Gods, emp'rors, heroes, sages,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...confine. And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Ehine; A small Euphrates through the piece is rolPd, , Who swam to sov'reign rule thro' seas of blood;...oppressive, sturdy man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd short view subjected to our eye Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little Eagles wave their wings in gold. 30 The Medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view subjected to our eye Gods, Emp'rors, Heroes, Sages, Beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little Eagles wave their wings in gold. 30 The Medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view subjected to our eye Gods, Emp'rors, Heroes, Sages, Beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight... | |
 | James Granger - 1824 - 800 pages
...authors that there are such repositories, and that the engraved plate, as well as the impressed metal, Faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages, bears each form and name." — 1'uri:.; But how would it allay the thirst of fame in a writer, if he could foresee that the perpetuity... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold. The medal,...climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold. 30 The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : 799460 A In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties lie. With... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 258 pages
...And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile and Rhine : A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd ; And little eagles wave their wings in gold. The medal,...climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emp'rors, heroes, sages, beauties lie. With sharpen'd sight... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 318 pages
...Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold. 30 The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : This the blue varnish, that the green endears, The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years ! To gain... | |
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