 What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal...  The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ... - Page 117by Jonathan Swift - 1784Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...submit to fate. Steel could the labor of the g»ds destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. 176 163 While fish in streams, &c. Dum juga montis aper, fluvios dum piscis amabit, Semper honos, nomenque... | |
 | 1836 - 428 pages
...to Fate. [date, Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial powers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. [feel What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should The conquering force of unresiated steel ? CANTO... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...submit to fate : Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ?' CANTO... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers , what you'd have it, What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel Tho conquering force of unresisted steel8 ? CANTO... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...men, submit to Fate. Steel could the labor of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial powers ͥ4 What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ? CANTO... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...men, submit to Fate. Steel could the labor of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th* imperial powers r rain, The laboring hind shall yoke the steer in vain ; But, if the threatening winds in tempest What wonder then, fair nymph .' thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel '. CANTO... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1845 - 186 pages
...wrote, in his Rape of the LocK,— ' Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, ' And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy ; ' Steel could the works...confound, ' And hew triumphal arches to the ground. ' What wonder, then, fair nymph ! thy hair should feel ' The conquering force of unresisting steel... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pages
...the third Canto : Steel did the labours of the gods destroy, And strike to dust tit imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. Here he most impudently attributes the demolition of Dunkirk, not to the pleasure of her majesty, or of her... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...monuments, like men, submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, 1 75 And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair Nymph ! thy hairs should feel The... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel " ? CANTO... | |
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