| John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...opprobrta vohit OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE. IN HONOUR OP ST. CECILIA'S DAY. I. "TwAs at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft...The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne : His valiaut peers were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound, (So should desert... | |
| English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE. IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. I. 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On hisimperial throne: His valiant peers were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound,... | |
| English poetry - 1801 - 224 pages
...ALE*£*ANDER's FEAST. WDRY Di . JL w A. S' at the royayfeast , f^flpersia won , By Philip's ivfrlikej Aloft in awful state' * The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were plac'd around ; Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound t So should desert in arms be crown'd.... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...Aloft in awful state The god- like hero sate On his imperial throne; His valiant peers were plac'd around ^ Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound...desert in arms be crowned. The lovely Thais by his side S.ite , like a blooming eastern bride, In flow'r of youth and beantyrs pride. Happy, happy , happy... | |
| David Humphreys - United States - 1804 - 440 pages
...OR THE POWER OF MUSIC: An Ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Daj. By Mr. Dryden. I. JL WAS at the royal feast for Persia won, By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sat On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...itself shake off the weight Upon th' unworthy mind." ALEXANDER'S FEAST. BY DRYDEN. 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's warlike son: Aloft...sate On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were plac'd around; Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound: So should desert in arms he crown'd. The... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...ALEXANDER'S FEAST; or the POWER of Music: AN ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. (DRTDEN.) TWAS at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The god-like hero fate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were plac'd around ; Their brows with roses and with... | |
| Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...âme. DRYDEN. ODE ON s*. CECILIA'S DAY. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. THE SOWER OF MUSIC. 1 w AS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son ; Aloft in awful state The god like hero sate On his imperial throne. His valiant peers, were plac'd around Their brows with roses... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN. ODE IN HONOR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAV 1 WAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft,...sate, On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were plac'd around; Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound, (So should desert in arms be crown'd)... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...unequalled effusion of lytical poetry, are fully discussed in the general criticism. I. 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft,...were placed around ; Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound : (So should desert in arms be crowned.) The lovely Thais, by his side, Sate like a blooming... | |
| |