| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 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 buskined stage. But O, sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musseus from his bower I Or bid the soul... | |
| 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... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...planet, or with element. 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. But, O sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 424 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 buskin'd stage. But, O, sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ! Or bid the... | |
| James Kerr - 1852 - 232 pages
...planet or with element. Some time 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." Questions. 1. What is the meaning of " outwatch the Bear?" 2. Who is " thrice-great... | |
| Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...47 Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sleeping by, Presenting Thebes'1 or Pelqps' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin' d stage. Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career, Till civil-suited Morn appear. And when... | |
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