| Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...In Spenser native muses play; Nor yet shall Waller yield to time, Nor pensive Cowley's moral lay — Sages and chiefs long since had birth Ere Caesar was,...these, new heavens and systems framed. Vain was the chiefs, the sage's pride ! They had no poet, and they died. In vain they schemed, in vain they bled... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...Spencer native Muses play ; Nor yet shall Waller yield to time, Nor pensive Cowley's moral lay — Sages and Chiefs long since had birth, Ere Caesar was, or Newton nam'd; 10 HOR. LIB. IV. ODE IX. NE forte credas interitura, quae .Longe sonantem natus ad Aufidum,... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...In Spenser native Muses play; Nor yet shall Waller yield to time, Nor pensive Cowley's moral lay— Sages and chiefs long since had birth Ere Caesar was, or Newton named; These raised new empires o'er the earth, And those new heavens and systems framed. Vain was the chief's... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...In Spenser native Muses play; Nor yet shall Waller yield to time, Nor pensive Cowley's moral lay— Sages and chiefs long since had birth Ere Caesar was, or Newton named; These raised new empires o'er the earth, And those new heavens and systems framed. Vain was the chiefs... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 416 pages
...Spenser native Muses play ; 6 Nor yet shall Waller yield to time, Nor pensive Cowley's moral lay — Sages and Chiefs long since had birth Ere Caesar was, or Newton nam'd ; Those rais'd new Empires o'er the Earth, And These, new Heav'ns and Systems fram'd. Vain was... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...Spenser native Muses play ; Nor yet shall Waller yield to time, Nor pensive Cowley's moral laySages and chiefs long since had birth Ere Caesar was, or...earth, And these, new heavens and systems framed. Vajn was the chief's, the sage's pride ! They had no poet, and they died. In vain they schemed, in... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...Spenser native Muses play ; Nor yet shall Waller yield to time, Nor pensive Cowley's moral lay — Sages and chiefs long since had birth Ere Caesar was, or Newton named ; 10 Those raised new empires o'er the earth, And these, new heavens and systems framed. Vain was the... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...Spenser native Muses play ; Nor yet shall Waller yield to time, Nor pensive Cowley's moral laySages and chiefs long since had birth Ere Caesar was, or Newton named; 10 Those raised new empires o'er the earth, And these, new heavens and systems framed. i Vain was the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...Spenser native muses play ; Nor yet shall Waller yield to time, Nor pensive Cowley's moral lay — Sages and chiefs long since had birth Ere Caesar was, or Newton named : These raised new empires o'er the earth, And those new heavens and systems framed. Vain was the chief's... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 318 pages
...Spenser native Muses play ; Nor yet shall Waller yield to time, Nor pensive Cowley's moral lay — Sages and chiefs long since had birth, Ere Caesar was, or Newton named ; 10 Those raised new empires o'er the earth, And these new heavens and systems framed. Vain was the... | |
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