 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 Seiten
...bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower ! The great Emathian conqueror did spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save th' Athenian walls from ruin bare.... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1809 - 666 Seiten
...he had as good right to en" pect this favour as Pindar'') he says, The great Emathian conqueror did spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground (Sonn. viii.) Diod. Sic. xvii. 10 — 13. reports many prodigies, which an, nounced this disastrous... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 Seiten
...seas-, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the 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 poet had the power To save th' Athenian walls from ruin bare.... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 Seiten
...sun's hright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bower : The great Emathian conquerour bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground : And the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 Seiten
...sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bower : The great Emathian conquerour bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground: And the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 Seiten
...consents to shed the blood of its' Children." You remember Milton's Sonnet — " The great Emathion conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus when temple and tower Went to the ground " Now though the Dusseldorf Map-maker may stand in the same relation to the Thebun Bard as the snail... | |
 | Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1814 - 458 Seiten
...intended to the city : " Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower; The great Ematbian conqueror bade spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. Such was the respect for genius testified by Alexander the Great : a character, which the precipitance... | |
 | Plutarch - 1816 - 348 Seiten
...poet, he had as good right to expect this favour as Pindar") he says, The great Emathian conqueror did spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground (Sonn. vlii.) opposed the revolt, he sold the rest (to the number of thirty thousand) for slaves. About... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 326 Seiten
...makes war, and consents to shed the blood of its children." You remember Milton's gonnet — •"' The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus when temple and tower Went to the ground" Now though the Dusseldorf map-maker may stand in the same relation to the Theban bard, as the snail... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 Seiten
...seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. lift not thy spear against the 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 poet had the power To save the' Athenian walls from ruin bare.... | |
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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 circle warms. Lift not thy spear against... 
