 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lémures moan with midnight plaint. In urns and altars round, . _ A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their...While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat. But Ovid tells a story of a gossiping nymph Lara, who having told Juno of her husband's amour with... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...hearth, [plaint ; The Lars, and Lemuros, moan with midnight In urns, and altars round, A drear nnd (lying imbs. Around th' adjoining brook, that purls along...a rock, Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, seal. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twit-e-batter'd god of Palestine; And mooned... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...thickets In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, [plaint : The Lars, and Lemures, moan with midnight In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound...service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, [seat. While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted Peor and Baalim • Forsake their temples dim,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...instance that 1 can recollect. T. War Ian. Bb XXI. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, 190 The Lars, and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ;...service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, 195 While each peculiar pow'r foregoes his wonted seat. XXII. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...the idols and fearful rites of ancient Superstition described, in Milton's Hymn on the Nativity ! " In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound...Affrights the Flamens, at their service quaint." " And sullen Moloch fed, Hath left, in shadows dread, His burning idol, all of blackest hue ; In vain, with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...the idols and fearful rites of ancient Superstition described, in Milton's Hymn on the Nativity ! " In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound...Affrights the Flamens, at their service quaint." " And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left, in shadows dread, His burning idol, all of blackest hue ; In vain, with... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. XXI. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, 190. The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In...service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, 195 While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat. " And now the axe rag'd in the forrest wilde,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...sent ; With flow'r-inwoven tresses torn The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. 21. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The...In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound 22. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice batter'd God of Palestine ; And mooned... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...thickets In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, [plaint ; The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound...service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, [seat. While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With... | |
 | Walter Scott - Biography & Autobiography - 1830 - 372 pages
...sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The Nymphs in twllight shade of tangled thickets mourn. " In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The...Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chlll marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat. "Peor and Baalim Forsake... | |
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In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power... 
