 A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew...  The Works of Walter Savage Landor - Page 62by Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 675 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air, while thus he spake.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air. MILTOM. -Beside him... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...sat, and publick care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestick though in ruin : sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders •fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air, while thus he spake.... | |
 | James Everett - 1812 - 138 pages
...Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air, while thus he spake... | |
 | England - 1854 - 800 pages
...climb in his imagination. Now for onr second comment — " ' 3»ge he stood, With A t lante»n shoulden fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies.' Often...have these verses been quoted without a suspicion how strongly the corporeal is substituted for the moral. However Atlantean his shoulders might be, the... | |
 | England - 1844 - 826 pages
...the noblest poet of the world. " Deep on his front engraven, Deliberation sat, and public care. Sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies. His look Drew andience and attention, bull as night, Or Hummer's noontide air." THE WEEK OF AN EMPEROR.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...sat, and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic, though in ruin : sage ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air, while thus he spake.... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...Deliberation sat, and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic, though in ruin: sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air, while thus he spake.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air, while thus he spake.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Deliberation sat, and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone Majestie, though in ruin : sage inter widely stretches his command : Thy pencil speaks the tongue of every land. F his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air, while thus he spake:... | |
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