 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
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - Architecture - 1886 - 600 pages
...plain base below the Muse, in capital italics, are the lines, — " No more the Grecian Muse unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ; She...strains, A PINDAR'S rapture in the lyre of GRAY." Latin inscriptions to Shadwcll and Mason follow, and the memorials to Prior, Sharp, and Anstey ; then... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - American literature - 1886 - 432 pages
...Hotncr. On Gray's monument In Westminster Abbey are these lines: "No more the Grecian mure unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay; She felt a Homer's flre in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." Col. Morse, 221 Third street, Washington.... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - London (England) - 1879 - 604 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...rapture in the lyre of Gray. Died July 30, 1771, aged 54." The stately monument of Matthew Prior, close by, is a sarcophagus surmounted by a bust and pediment... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - Epitaphs - 1888 - 578 pages
...part of Thornton which could die. In Westminster Abbey. Ob. 1771, set. 54 :— THOMAS GEAY. War ton. No more the Grecian Muse unrivall'd 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. Mason. The monument... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1888 - 438 pages
...Abbey:— 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. Garrick's epitaph upon William Hogarth is the last I shall trouble you with :— Farewell! great painter... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 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 receptionof... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1888 - 438 pages
...Abbey:— 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. Garrick's epitaph upon William Hogarth is the last I shall trouble you with :— Farewell! great painter... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1888 - 438 pages
...Abbey:— 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. Garrick's epitaph upon William Hogarth is the last I shall trouble you with :— Farewell! great painter... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1891 - 200 pages
...Gray, and below the following inscription written by Mason :— " No more the Grecian Muse unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ; She...Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. He died July 30th, 1771. Aged 54." One defect in these lines is that there is as much about Milton... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1893 - 390 pages
...hereafter : The British Homer. Milton is called the British Homer. " No more the Grecian muse unrivaled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay-; She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Finder's rapture in the lyre of Gray." — On O ray's Monument in Westminster Abbey. The Celtic Homer—Ossian,... | |
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