 | Book - 1854 - 496 sider
...would stoop to her. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound ; So should desert in arms be crown 'd.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 380 sider
...roses and with myrtles bound (So should desert in arms be crown'd). < The lovely Thais, by his side, Q, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride In flower of youth...and beauty's pride. '^ * Happy, happy, happy pair ! v \ -^ None but the brave^ < • None but the brave/ None but the brave deserves the fair.,. / ^... | |
 | Salem Town - 1855 - 492 sider
...Slow and dignified. Aloft, in awful state, The god-like hero sat On his imperial throne. Narrative. His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows, with roses, and with myrtles, bound. Timotheus,0 placed on high, Amid the tuneful choir, With flying fingers, touched the lyre; — The... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 sider
...royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son. — Aloft, in awful state, The godlike hero sat On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were placed...in arms be crowned. The lovely Thais, by his side, Sat like a blooming Eastern bride, In flower of youth, and beauty's pride. — Happy, happy, happy... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 sider
...reveille." SCOTT. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son, Aloft, in awful state, The god-like hero sate On his...were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound So should desert in arms be crown'd. The lovely Thais, by his side, Sat like a blooming... | |
 | Salem Town - 1857 - 524 sider
...Slow and diguified. Aloft, in awful state, The godlike hero sat On his imperial throne. Narrative. His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows, with roses and with myrtle, bound. What IS transition ! How n>ay the general principles of transition be learned? How are... | |
 | Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - 152 sider
...FEAST. 786. Martial Description. 'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son, Awe. Aloft in awful state, The god-like hero sate, On his imperial throne. Admiration. His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound : So... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 sider
...roses and with myrtle bound; So should desert in arms be crown'd. The lovely Thais by his side Sat, like a blooming Eastern bride, In flower of youth...beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair; None but the bravo, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the Air. Ilmotheus, plac'd on high • Amid... | |
 | Henry Green - 1858 - 170 sider
...32. " In battle-state enthroned." " 'Twas at the royal feast for Persia, won By Philip's warlike sou; Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his...imperial throne, His valiant peers were placed around." Dryden's Alexander's Feast. Note 9, page 33. " The highest pomp not long endures." As in Gray's Elegy,—... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 sider
...Ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day. 'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son ; Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were plac'd around ; Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound, — So should desert in arms be crown... | |
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Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne... 
