 | John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 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. ON THE RELIGIOUS MEMORY OF MRS. CATHARINE THOMSON, MY CHRISTIAN FRIEND. JOHN MILTON. 1608—1674. WHEN... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower : The great Emathian conquerour bid spare lo The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went...the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. IV. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunn'd the broad... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 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... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1874 - 504 pages
...seize, If deed of honour did thce ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. VOL. II. z He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That...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... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Gardiner - Great Britain - 1874 - 404 pages
...against the muses' bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, whenjtemple and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air...the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. 1642.] EAST rSESTTS WEST. 133 sation of arms had been made, he •was justified, by the rules of •war,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1874 - 194 pages
...suffered to enter and come in.' It needs hardly be observed that in the words of Milton's sonnet, ' and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare,' is an allusion to another event of somewhat similar character, recorded in Plutarch's Life of Lysander.1... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1874 - 184 pages
...straight suffered to enter and come in.' It needs hardly be observed that in the words of Milton's sonnet, 'and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the...power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare,' is an allusion to another event of somewhat similar character, recorded in Plutarch's Life of Lysander.1... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 pages
...conquerori 2 bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : And the repeated3 air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. 1 ' Assault : ' by Charles I., in 1642.—* ' Conqueror : ' Alexander the Great. • ' Repeated : '... | |
 | Alexander William Potts - Latin language - 1875 - 198 pages
...are in existence. Milton alludes to Alexander's respect for his memory in the following lines : — ' Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower : •...power to save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.' 4 Solo. — Dat. oisolum. Ibi quum patrimonium omne suum amicis divisisset, sibi Asiam sufficere praefatus,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...Muses' bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and'tower Went to the ground ; and the repeated air Of sad Electra's...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... | |
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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... 
