| Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...cemptebantur :" fays Tacitus, Annal. xvi. 13. defcribing a peftilence in Rome. W. Ver. 41. Lo! the e were they, whofe fouls the Furies fteel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. Our poet feems to have been fond of thefe two verfes : for he has repeated them, with trivial variation,... | |
| Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1796 - 386 pages
...peace. Ver. 749.] This is too ftrongly put, and was tranfplanted hither from his elegy : Lo ! thefe were they, whofe fouls the Furies fteel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. I would propofe an alteration ftriftly correfpondent to his original : The Gods thine unrelenting breaft... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...long fun'rals blacken all the way), Lo! thefe were they whoie fouls the Furies fttcl'd, And cuis'd with hearts unknowing how to yield, Thus unlamented pafs the proud away. The gsze of fools, and pageant of a day ! So pcrifii all whole bnalt ne'er leam'd to gloTf For «nhers'... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...paflengers mall ftand, and pointing fay, (While the long fun'rals blacken all the way) 40 Lo ! thefe were they, whofe fouls the Furies fteel'd, And curs'd...fools, and pageant of a day ! So perifh all, whofe breaft ne'er learn'd to glow 45 For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 444 pages
...paflengers mall Hand, and pointing fay, (While the long fun'rals blacken all the way) 40 Lo ! thefe were they, whofe fouls the Furies fteel'd, And curs'd...fools, and pageant of a day ! So perifh all, whofe breaft ne'er learn'd to glow 45 For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd... | |
| Joseph Addison - Anecdotes - 1797 - 610 pages
...-whose breast ne'er learn'dt* glow, " At other's good, nor melt at others -woe; " So, unlanientcd, pass the proud away, " The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day.'" ANECDOTE OF MARSHAL TALLARD. WHEN Marshal Tallard was confined a prisoner of war at Nottingham, he... | |
| British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
...paftengers fhall ftand, and, pointing, fay, (While the long fun'rals blacken all the way,) Lo ! thefe were they whofe fouls the furies fteel'd, And curs'd...fools, and pageant of a day ! So perifh all, whofe breaft ne'er learnt to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe. What can atone, O ever-injur'd... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - World history - 1801 - 1008 pages
...as a fubfidized ally), left his own fhipwreckt corpfe at lafl upon the fea-beat fhorc of Calabria. Thus unlamented pafs the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day : So periih all whofe breaA ne'er learn'd to glow At other's good, or feel for other's woe. POPE. So perifhcd... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...whose souls the furies sieel'd,, Aud curs'd with hearts unknowing how' to yield. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools , and pageant of a day ! &» perish all , whose breast ne'er learn'd to glovf For others'' good , or melt at others' woe.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...whose souls the Furies steel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day I So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn 'd to glow 45 For others' good, or melt at others' woe. What... | |
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