 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...When num'rous wax-lights in bright order blaze, While nymphs take treats, or assignations give, 169 So long my honour, name, and praise, shall live !...the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy ; KOTES. Ver. 165. Atalantit] A famous book written about that time by a woman : full... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...When num'rous wax-lights in bright order blaze, While nymphs take treats, or assignations give, 169 So long my honour, name, and praise, shall live !...the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy ; NOTES. Ver. 165. Atalantis] A famous book written about that time by a woman : full... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...to fate! [date, Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the' imperial towers of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound,...arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hair should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ?' CANTO IV. BUT anxious cares the pensive... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...While nymphs take treats, or assignations give, So long my honour, name, and praise shall live! 170 What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date,...the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, 175 And hew triumphal arches to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...While nymphs take treats, or assignations give, So long my honour, name, and praise shall live ! 170 What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date,...the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, 175 And hew triumphal arches to the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...give. So long my honour, name, and praise, shall live ! What time would spare, from steel receivesits boast Their virtue fix'd ; 'tis fix'd as in a frost...retiring to the breast; But strength of mind is exer towr's of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...lady's bed ; While visits shall be paid on solemn days, When numerous wax-lights in bright order blaze ; While nymphs take treats, or assignations give, So...the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...lady's bed ; While visits shall be paid on solemn days, When numerous wax-lights in bright order blaze ; While nymphs take treats, or assignations give —...the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew trinmphal arches... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...lady's bed, While visits shall be paid on soleum days, When numerous wax-lights in bright order blaze, While nymphs take treats, or assignations give, So...praise, shall live ! What time would spare, from steel reeeives its date, A nd monuments, like men, submit to fate ! Stevl eould the labour of the gods destroy,... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...nymphs taiie treats, or assignations give, So long my honour, name, and praise shall live ! WhatTime would spare, from steel receives its date, And monuments,...the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.... | |
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What time would spare, from steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial powers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal... 
