 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...Persian abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods ! The princes applaud with a furious joy, And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to destroy...prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. CHORUS. And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to Thais led the way, [destroy : To light him to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...glittering temples of their hostile gods. The princes applaud , with a furious joy ; And the king seiz'da Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes ; The glorious fault fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago. Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...glittering temples of their hostile gods. The prinees applaud, with a furious joy ; And the king seiz'da justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view, N'or the deep tr tir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows leam'd to blow, While organs yet were mute... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...glittering temples of their hostile gods ! The princes applaud, with a furious joy ; And the king seiz'da flambeau, with zeal to destroy : Thais led the way,...To light him to his prey ; And, like another Helen — fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows lea-n'd to blow, While organs yet were... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...with zeal to destroy ; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows...Timotheus, to his breathing flute, And sounding lyre, swell tile soul to rage, or kindle soft desire At last divine Cecilia came, Invcntress of the vocal... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...glittering temples of their hostile gods !— The princes applaud, with a furious joy; And the King seiz'da flambeau, with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way,...To light him to his prey ! And, like another Helen fir'd—another Troy ! Thus long ago, , - i • .. . , Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, ; . t While... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...glittering temples of their hostile gods! The princes applaud with a furious joy, And the king seiz'da flambeau, with zeal to destroy: Thais led the way,...To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, (Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, — While organs yet were... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...glittering temples of their hostile gods ! The princes applaud, with a furious joy ; And the king seiz'da flambeau, with zeal to destroy : Thais led the way,...To light him to his prey ; And, like another Helen — fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows Jearn'd to blow, While organs yet were... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - Geography - 1831 - 970 pages
...Diodor. Sic. XVII. 70.— Strab. XV. p. 730. The princes applaud with a furious joy ; And the king *eizrd a flambeau, with zeal to destroy ; Thais led the way,...prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. Drydtti, Ala. Ftait. n > Persia ; it was a favourite residence of Cyrus, because near it he conquered... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods ! — The princes applaud, with a furious joy ; And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to destroy...fired another Troy. Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute ; Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre,... | |
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Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain, And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain; Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew. Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile... 
