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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... "
The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine - Page 281
1866
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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft: Addressed to J.G. Lockhart, Esq

Walter Scott - Demonology - 1830 - 374 pages
...tresses torn, The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thicket* mourn " In consecrated earth, And on tile holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight...Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And ttie chill marble seems to swear, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat. "Peor and Baalim...
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Classical Examinations: Or, A Selection of University Scholarship ..., Volume 1

University of Cambridge - Classical education - 1830 - 636 pages
...shade of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated Earth, And on the holy Hearth, The Lars and Lémures moan with midnight plaint ; In Urns, and Altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamines at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes...
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Sacred Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Works of the Most Admired ...

Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thicken mourn. In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth, The Lars...the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar pow'r foregoes his wonted seat. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice balter'd...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...the holy hearth, 190 The Lars, and Lemures moan with midnight In urns, and altars round, [plaint ; A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their...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...
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Advice in the Pursuits of Literature: Containing Historical, Biographical ...

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 pages
...in twilight shade of tangled thickets, mourn. In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth, The Lares and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and...altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flainens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power foregoes...
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Sacred poetry: consisting of selections from the works of the most admired ...

Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickett mourn. In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight ul&int.. In nrns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flemena at their service quaint...
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The Indicator, and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 pages
...the evil or malignant ones Larvae and Lemures. Thus Milton, in his awful Hymn on the Nativity : — In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The...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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...voice heard, lamentation and weeping.' Warton. 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...
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The Graphic & Historical Illustrator, Ed. by E.W. Brayley

320 pages
...shade of tangled thickets mourn. " In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth, The Lares and Lemuret moan with midnight plaint : In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Fldmeni at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes...
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Leigh Hunt's London Journal, Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...shade of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars, and Lémures, moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Klamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes...
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