 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...the wonted roar ? 2. " Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes or Pelops' line Or the tale of Troy divine...what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage." What is the meaning of " sceptered pall"? and why is Tragedy represented as so arrayed... | |
 | Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 pages
...the wonted roar ? 2. " Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes or Pelops' line Or the tale of Troy divine;...what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage." What is the meaning of " sceptered pall" ? and why is Tragedy represented as so arrayed... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 pages
...planet, or with element. 23 Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy, In sceptred pall, come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes', or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine; Or what (though rare) of latqr age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. 24 • • ' But, O, sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...planet, or with element. Sometimes let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting o Heav'n gate ascend. Bear on your wings and in your notes His pralle. Ye that in waters buskin'd stage. But, О sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musteus from his bower; Or bid the soul... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy in sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes' or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine,...what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the buskitied stage. But O, sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...circle, to rise on the wings of genius, when Tragedy " In sceptred pall comes sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine,...what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage." 6. Who does not remember some illumined evening, in which faces, now removed, shone... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Books and reading - 1851 - 332 pages
...evening amufements of his Thoughtful Man : " Sometimes let gorgeous Tragedy IlPenferofo. In fceptred pall come fweeping by, Prefenting Thebes, or Pelops'...Or what — though rare, — of later age Ennobled bath the bujkirfd ftage." The choice of fubjedl, not more than its treatment, gave an educational tone... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...In Scepter'd Pall com fweeping by, Prefenting Thebs, or Pelops line, Or the tale of Troy divine. 100 Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath...ftage. But, O fad Virgin, that thy power Might raife Mufceus from his bower, Or bid the foul of Orpheus fing Such notes as warbled to the firing, Drew Iron... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...planet, or with element. Sometimes let gorgeous Tragedy, In sceptred pall, come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine,...what, though rare, of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. [From "Ltycidas."] A MONODY ON EDWARD KING, [A COLLEGE COMPANION OF MIlTON's, WHO PERISHED... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Books and reading - 1851 - 388 pages
...Thoughtful Man : " Sometimes let gorgeous Tragedy IlPenferofo. In fceptred pall come fweeping by, Preferring Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine...— though rare, — of later age Ennobled hath the bujkirfd ftage." The choice of fubject, not more than its treatment, gave an educational tone to old... | |
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Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, O sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ; Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string,... 
