 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - England - 1834 - 432 pages
...of tangled thickets mourn. "In consecrated earth And он the holi] hearth, The Lares and Lémures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flameas at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 428 pages
...moan with midnight plaint; In urus and altars round, A drear nnd dying sound Affrights the Flameas at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat." In the times of the Druids, this imaginary race was supposed to be the manes... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...consecrated earth, And mi the holy hearth, 191) The Lars, and Lemures, moan with midnight plain! ; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Fhiinens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, 195 Which each peculiar pow'r... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1835 - 350 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... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 402 pages
...haunted spring, and dale, Edg'd with poplar pale, In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, Tlie Lars and Lemures moan with midnig-ht plaint ; In urns...While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat. Peer and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-batter'd god of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...of a poet, adverts to the fine force of Milton's epithets, in describing the rites of idolatry : — 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1836 - 358 pages
...sighing sent; With flower•inwoven tresses lorn, The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn "In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The...seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes ilia wonted seal. "Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-batler'd god of Palestine... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lares, and Lemures, mourn with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamena at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculisr Power foregoes... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1836 - 356 pages
...sighing sent; With flower-inwoven treHsea torn, The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn "In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures nioau with midnight plaint; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affright!! the Flamens... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 pages
...sent : \\ itli flowrr-inwo\en tresses torn. The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. w In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The...moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round, Adrear mil dying sound Affrights the Flamens at tlieir service quaint; And the chill marble, seems... | |
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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... 
