 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 488 pages
...(So mould defert in arms be crown'd :) The lovely Thais, by his fide, Sate like a blooming Eaftern bride In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair ! None but the brave1;'' None but the brave, None but the brave deferves the fair. AN O'DE ON ST. CECILI A's DAY.... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...hsc opprobrta vohit OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE. IN HONOUR OP ST. CECILIA'S DAY. I. "TwAs at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son...The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne : His valiaut peers were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound, (So should desert... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...(Sa Humid defert in arms be crown'd :) The lovely Thais, by his fide, Sate like a blooming Eailcrn bride, In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy,...happy, happy pair ! None but the brave, None but the Ьгатс, None but the brave deferves the fair. CHORUS. Huffy", laffiy, taffy fair ! Jfonc but the... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE. IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. I. 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On hisimperial throne: His valiant peers were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound,... | |
 | David Humphreys - United States - 1804 - 440 pages
...FEAST, OR THE POWER OF MUSIC: An Ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Daj. By Mr. Dryden. I. JL WAS at the royal feast for Persia won, By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sat On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were plac'd around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...from itself shake off the weight Upon th' unworthy mind." ALEXANDER'S FEAST. BY DRYDEN. 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's warlike son:...sate On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were plac'd around; Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound: So should desert in arms he crown'd. The... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...heav'n. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; or the POWER of Music: AN ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. (DRTDEN.) TWAS at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The god-like hero fate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were plac'd around ; Their brows with roses and with... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...state . • ... • : ... The god like hero sate On his imperial throne. His valiant peers were plac'd around Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound, ( So should desert in arms be crown'd , ) The lovely Thaïs by his side Sate like a blooming eastern bride DRYDEN. ODE POUR LE JOUR... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...IN HONOR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. 1 WAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : k Aloft, in awful state, The godlike hero sate, On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were plac'd around ; Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound, (So should desert in arms be crown'd)... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...this unequalled <£fusion of tyiical poetry, are fully discussed in the general criticism. I. at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son...His valiant peers were placed around; Their brows witli roses and with myrtles bound ; (So should desert in arms be crowned.) The lovely Thais, by his... | |
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Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne... 
