 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...breast. Pudet hsc opprobrta vohit OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE. IN HONOUR OP ST. CECILIA'S DAY. I. "TwAs at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's...The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne : His valiaut peers were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound, (So should desert... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...opprobia vi bis ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE. IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. I. 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's...son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On hisimperial throne: His valiant peers were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound,... | |
 | David Humphreys - United States - 1804 - 440 pages
...ALEXANDER'S FEAST, OR THE POWER OF MUSIC: An Ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Daj. By Mr. Dryden. I. JL WAS at the 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 plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...of fate, And from itself shake off the weight Upon th' unworthy mind." ALEXANDER'S FEAST. BY DRYDEN. 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's...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 he crown'd. The... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...the soul to heav'n. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; or the POWER of Music: AN ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. (DRTDEN.) TWAS at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's...warlike son : Aloft in awful state The god-like hero fate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were plac'd around ; Their brows with roses and with... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...et son âme. *•: DRYDEN. ODE ON s 1 . CECILIA'S DAY. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. THE POWER OF MUSIC. 1 WAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike...son ; Aloft in awful state . • ... • : ... The god like hero sate On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were plac'd around Their brows with roses... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...IN HONOR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. 1 WAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : k 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'd)... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...this unequalled effusion of ly i teal poetry, are fully discussed in the general criticism. I. 'IWAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike...(So should desert in arms be crowned.) The lovely Thais, by his side, Sate like a blooming eastern bride, In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...merits of this unequalled <£fusion of tyiical poetry, are fully discussed in the general criticism. I. at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike...His valiant peers were placed around; Their brows witli roses and with myrtles bound ; (So should desert in arms be crowned.) The lovely Thais, by his... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...CHAP. XXXIII. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 'TWAS at the 'royal feast, for Persia won By .Philip's warlike SoD ^ Aloft in awful state The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne ; .His valiant peers were plae'd around ; Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound : So should desert in arms be crown'd.... | |
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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... 
