up to the bust of Milton: No more the Grecian Muse unrivall'd reigns; To Britain let the nations homage pay. She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. . Died July 30, 1771, aged fifty-four. A neat piece of sculpture.... London, by David Hughson - Page 299by Edward Pugh - 1807Full view - About this book
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1876 - 162 pages
...1778 a monument to Gray was erected in Westminster Abbey by Mason, with the following inscription : No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain...Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. The cenotaph afterwards erected in Stoke Park by Mr. Penn is described below. L WEST-END HOUSE. STOKE-POGIS.... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 556 pages
...points to a bust of Milton. Beneath are the lines of Mason— " No more the Grsecian muse unrival'd reigns ; To Britain let the nations homage pay: She...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." John Milton, 1671, buried at St. Giles's, Cripplegate (see Vol. I. Ch. VII.). The monument, by Rystrack,... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 532 pages
...points to a bust of Milton. Beneath are the lines of Mason— " No more the Graecian muse unrival'd reigns ; To Britain let the nations homage pay : She...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." John Milton, 1671, buried at St. Giles's, Cripplegate (see Vol. I. Cli. VII.). The monument, by Rysbrack,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1880 - 164 pages
...1778 a monument to Gray was erected in Westminster Abbey by Mason, with the following inscription : No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain...Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. The cenotaph afterwards erected in Stoke Park by Mr. Penn is described below. country is flat, but... | |
| George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 606 pages
...it. The memorial, which was the work of John Bacon, the sculptor, bears the following lines :— " No more the Grecian Muse unrivall'd reigns To Britain...pay ; She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, Л Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. Died July 30, 1771, aged 54." The stately monument of Matthew... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...his first biographer, in his epitaph equalled him with Pindar. Britain has known, says Mason, . . ' a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." The immense vogue of Pope and of his style of versification had at first prevented the frank reception... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...his first biographer, in his epitaph equalled him with Pindar. Britain has known, says Mason, . . ' a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." The immense vogue of Pope and of his style of versification had at first prevented the frank reception... | |
| Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1882 - 566 pages
...:— " No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns; To Britain let the nations homage pay ; She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." 3. The principal completed works of Gray are his Ode to Eton College, the Ode to Spring, the Ode to... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1883 - 576 pages
...medallionportrait, and points to a bust of Milton. Beneath are the lines of Mason— ' No more the Gnecian muse unrivall'd reigns ; To Britain let the nations...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.' John Milton, 1674, buried at St. Giles's, Cripplegate (see Vol. I. Ch. VII.). The monument, by Rysbrack,... | |
| Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1882 - 558 pages
...excellence:— " No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns ; To Britain let the nations homage pay ; She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." 3. The principal completed works of Gray are his Ode to Eton College, the Ode to Spring, the Ode to... | |
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