 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 488 pages
...yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WORDSWORTH. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. CAPTAIN or Colonel, or Knight in arms, Whose...power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.' MILTON. ROB ROY'S GRAVE. A FAMOUS man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy! And Scotland... | |
 | John Milton - 1880 - 654 pages
...or Colonel, or Knight in Arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect...the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX [TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY.] LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...Knight in arms, JOHN Whose chance on these defenceless doors may t««*-i674 seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect...the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. CXLI T ADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green, And... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 582 pages
...honor did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, foi> he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle...the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. MILTON. ROB ROY'S GRAVE. A FAMOUS man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy! And Scotland... | |
 | England - 1880 - 818 pages
...lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The...power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare." That seems to me an absolutely perfect sonnet. How well sense and sound correspond throughout it !... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower ; The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The ho list; of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground...power ' To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. On the late Massacre in Piemont.* Avenge, O Lord ! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered... | |
 | John Milton - 1910 - 408 pages
...or Colonel, or Knight in Arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect...the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. BE. [TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY.] LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wiselyhast shunned the broad... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - English literature - 1910 - 1176 pages
...please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms 5 inguished thought, With many recognitions dim and...Thpugh, changed, no doubt, from what I was when fi [TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY ] Lady, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad... | |
 | Empire Club of Canada - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1910 - 270 pages
...spear against the muses' bower." We should have remembered, even in these piping times of peace, that "The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house...power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare." A few weeks ago, in order to do honour to a London music hall celebrity, a number of his countrymen... | |
 | William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bovver : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of...the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. 16. Written by Wordsworth in 1803, on the expected invasion of England by the French. Come ye — who,... | |
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If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright... 
