 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Religious poetry, American - 1853 - 604 pages
...flower-inwoven tresses torn, The Nymphs, in twilight shade of tangled thickets, mourn. In consecrated earth, m And on the holy hearth, The lars and lemures moan...altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the flameris at their service quaint : And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...twilightshade of tangled thickets " In consecrated earth. And on the holy hearth. The Lars and Lеmures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round,...the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marhle seems to sweat. While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat. " Peor and Baalim Forsake... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 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 marhle seems to sweat, 195 While each peculiar Pow'r foregoes his wonted seat. XXII. Peor and Baalim... | |
 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 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...Altars round, A drear, and dying sound Affrights the Flamins at their service quaint; And the chill Marble seems to sweat, 195 While each peculiar power... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. XXI In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The...chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat XXII Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered god... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - Literary Criticism - 1949 - 802 pages
...all, the splendid strength and vividness of the myths, both the dying deities of Greece and Rome : In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint and the glorious new spirits of Christianity, visiting the earth to celebrate the incarnation of God... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...OVERTHROW OF APOLLO AND THE PAGAN DEITIES THE FLIGHT OF MOLOCH xxi In consecrated Earth, And on tie My Hearth, The Lars, and Lemures moan with midnight plaint,...Altars round, A drear, and dying sound Affrights the Flamins at their service quaint; And the chitt Marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Art - 1999 - 340 pages
...banished, the geniuses and nymphs, ancestral spirits and spirits of the dead sent weeping away, and In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound...chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat, (lines 192-6) Milton's contemporary implications are clear - a true celebration... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - History - 2000 - 440 pages
...shade of tangled thickets mourn. 21 In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemurs^2 moan with midnight plaint; In urns and altars round,...chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat. 22 Peor and Baalim 3 5 29. Satan; cf. Rev. 20:2-3. 30. The Greek mount and... | |
 | Jeffrey Hart - Education - 2008 - 285 pages
...the Morning of Christ's Nativity": 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 Flamins at their service quaint. 7 Throughout the Hebrew Bible itself we find traces of the residual... | |
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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... 
