 | English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...stray The world: in spi'rit perhaps he also saw Rich Mexico, the seat of Montezume, And Cusco in Peru, the richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Geryon' sons 410 Call El Dorado: but to nobler sights Michael from Adam's eyes the film remov'd, Which... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...2 The world : in spi'rit perhaps he also saw Rich Mexico the seat of Montezume, And Cusco in Peru, the richer seat Of Atabalipa , and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Geryon's sons $i» Call El Dorado : but to nobler sights Michael from Adam's eyes the film remov'd,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...The world. In sp'rit perhaps he also saw 406 Rich Mexico, the seat of Montezume, And Cusco in Peru, the richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Geryon's sons 410 Call El Dorado : but to nobler sights Michael from Adam's eyes the film remov'd,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 290 pages
...opportunity of calling in a softer word to his assistance ; for this reason, and I believe for this^only, he sometimes indulges himself in a long series of...proper names, and introduces them •where they add but little music to his poem. The richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1807 - 788 pages
...hill of paradise, .to behold in the spirit, Rich Mexico, the seat of Montezume, And disco in Peru, the richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gcryon's sons Call £1 Dorado. Book 11. t>. 407. But that it should continue more than a century longer,... | |
 | 1806 - 346 pages
...pleased with an opportunity of calling in a softer word to his assistance ; for this reason, and I believe for this only, he sometimes indulges himself...names, and introduces them where they add little but musick to his poem. The richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 424 pages
...with an opportunity of calling in a softer word to his assistance: for this reason, and I be. licve for this only, he sometimes indulges himself in a...names, and introduces them where they add little but musick to his poem. The richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd f•uiuna, whose great city Gown's... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...pleased with an opportunity of calling in a softer word to his assistance ; for this reason, and I believe for this only, he sometimes indulges himself...names, and introduces them where they add little but musick to his poem. -The richer seat Of Atabalifa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Geriou's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...pleased with an opportunity of calling in a softer word to his assistance ; for this reason, and I believe for this only, he sometimes indulges himself...names, and introduces them where they add little but musick to his poem. • The richer seat Of Atabalipa, and' yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Genoa's... | |
 | 1810 - 462 pages
...pleased with an opportunity of calling in a softer word to his assistance ; for this reason, and I believe for this only, he sometimes indulges himself...names, and introduces them where they add little but musick to his poem. • The richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's... | |
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Italian, the most mellifluous of all modern poetry, seems fully convinced of the unfitness of our language for smooth versification, and is therefore pleased with an opportunity of calling in a softer word to his assistance : for this reason, and I believe... 
