 That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night ; And they made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands unto this day, To witness if I lie.  Michigan Law Journal - Page 2671898Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 626 pages
...and of the times in which he is supposed to have sung his lay : — ' They gave him of the corn-land That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night; And they made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands... | |
 | 1843 - 862 pages
...when reading tlie story written beneath the statue " in letters all of gold :" — " They gave him of the corn land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night : And they made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English poetry - 1843 - 142 pages
...loud, He enters through the River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. 65. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night; And they made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...loud, He enters through the River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. 65. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night; . And they made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 604 pages
...loud, He enters through tho River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night : And they made a mnlten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...loud, He enters through the River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night ; And they made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the river gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. They gave him of the corn land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night : And they made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...loud, He enters through the river-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from mom till night ; And they made a molten image, And eel it up on high, And there it stands... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...loud, He enters through the river-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. They gave him of the corn-land, That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from mom till night ; And they made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands... | |
 | John Mitchell Kemble - Great Britain - 1849 - 558 pages
...Horatius in the U' IIH: 11 1 Ager ought now to be familiar to every one : " They gave him of the corn-land That was of public right, As much as two strong oxen Could plough from morn till night ! " 1 " Geald Sone guSrrcs Geata dryhten .... ofer maSmum sealde heora... | |
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