 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1802 - 356 pages
...were singularly great. Not all proud Thebes' unrivaU'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th" Egyptian plain, That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through an hundred gates. Two hundred horsemen and two hundred cars. From each wide portal issuing to the wars.... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...Orchomenian town; 499 ' Not all proud Thehes' unrivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th' /Egyptian plain, ' (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, ' And pours her heroes thro' a hundred gates, ' Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars ' From each wide portal issuing... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...Orchomenian town ; Not all proud Thebes' unrivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th' jtpyptian plain, (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand...and two hundred cars, From each wide portal issuing !,<> the wars) Tho' bribes were heap'd on bribes, in number more Than dust in fields, or sands along... | |
 | Benjamin Stillingfleet - Natural history - 1811 - 522 pages
...change his purpose. " Not all proud Thebes' unrivall'd walls contain, The world.s great empress on the Egyptian plain, That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours, her heroes through an hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars, From each wide portal issuing to the... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...waters in its course. " Not all proud Thebes unrivalled walls contain, The world's great Empress on th' .Egyptian plain, That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes thro" a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to... | |
 | Greek literature - 1813 - 350 pages
...many-peopled Orchomeniaii town ; Not all proud Thebes' uni ivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on the' Egyptian plain, (That spreads her conquests o'er...hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen and two hundred oars From each wide portal issuing to the wars) [more Though bribes were heap'd on bribes, in number... | |
 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...proud Thebes' uurivalled walls contain, The world's great empress on th' Egyptian plain, That sends her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her...gates,— Two hundred horsemen and two hundred cars Through each wide portal issuing to the wars," &c. The hundred gates, Diodorus explains to refer to... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 442 pages
...proud Thebes' unrival'd walls contain, The world's great Empress on the' Egyptian plain VOL. VI. D (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states,...heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen aud two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to the wars), Though bribes were heap'd on bribes,... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1825 - 298 pages
...Orchomenian town ; Not all proud Thehes' unrivall'd walls contain, The world's great empress on th' jEgyptian plain, (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand...Hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars From each wide porUil issuing to the wars) Though hrihes were heap'd on hrihes, in numher mon? Than du::l in lielJs,... | |
 | Classical philology - 1825 - 396 pages
...yet been " cut off" from " Populous No," (Thebes.) The World's great empress on the Egyptian main, That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes thro' a hundred gates ; Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to... | |
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Egyptian plain (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars 505 From each wide portal issuing to the wars... 
