 Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found!  The Retrospective Review.. - Page 69edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, even before our death. POPE'S Essay on Man. 10. Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they go. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 11. A youth to fame, ere yet to manhood, known. POPE. 12. Absurd ! to... | |
 | A. D. Fillan - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1849 - 316 pages
...Dodona. But besides those whose names we have enumerated — " Lights of the world, and demigods of fame, Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow," there were many others who, though unknown to fame, then displayed an amount of talent and of promise... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...chorus of mankind. Hail, bards triumphant ! born in happier days ; Immortal heirs of universal praise ! Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow ; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found ! O may... | |
 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - Europe - 1851 - 892 pages
...whom the rays of genius have fallen, futurity does but serve to brighten the lustre of their fame. " Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down enlarging as they flow." In the last century, while the Odes of Collins lay neglected in a few solitary copies on the bookstalls... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...(nnderstood). Hail, bards triumphant ! born in happier days ; Immortal heirs of universal praise ! Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow ; 190 Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found !... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...chorus of mankind ! Hail, bards triumphant ! born in happier days ; Immortal heirs of universal praise ; Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow ! Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found ! 0 may... | |
 | James Spear Loring - Boston (Mass.) - 1852 - 764 pages
...consent, of armed thousands, hitherto invincible ! ' Immortal heirs of umvereal praise ! Whose honors with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow ; Nations unborn your mighty name shall sound, And worlds applaud, that must not yet be found ! ' "... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 pages
...: " Shields, helms, and swords, all jangle as they hang, And sound formidinous with angry clang." " Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow." 3 "As man's meanders to the vital spring, Roll all their tides, then back their circles bring." < Some... | |
 | Biography - 1855 - 364 pages
...were afterwards inserted without alteration in his other poems. As in the " Essay on Criticism :" — Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow. Mention is also made of a tragedy on the subject of St. Genevieve, a comedy, panegyrics on all the... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - Lawyers - 1855 - 598 pages
...syllable of time. ' Hail spirits, born in happier days ; Immortal heirs of universal praise ; Whose honors with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow; Natjons unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found !' "The... | |
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