 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...CHAP. XXXIII. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 'TWAS at the 'royal feast, for Persia won By .Philip's warlike SoD ^ Aloft in awful state The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne ; .His valiant peers were plae'd around ; Their brows with roses and with myrtle bound : So should desert in arms be crown'd.... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...death. JOHN DRYDEN. ALEXANDER's FEAST, Or, the Power of Music: AN ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. TT1WAS at the royal feast, for Persia won •*- By Philip's...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.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...a narrow mind. § 99. Alexander's Frast ; or the Power of Wt/sic. AnOdeonSf. Cecilia's Day. DRYDEN. us. " If time past, And time posscst, lx>th pain us, what can please ', That which the _ t The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne : His valiant |>eers were plac'd around; ["heir brows... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. An Ode in .honour of St. Cecilia's Day. . • T was at the royal feast, for Persia won by Philip's warlike...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:)... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...sky. ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. ' . An Ode in -honour of St. Cecilia's Day. • T was at the royal feast, for Persia won by Philip's warlike son: aloft in awful state the godlike hero sate oil his imperial throne: his valiant peers were plac'd around ; their brows with roses and with myrtles... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 582 pages
...MUSIC BY MR. HUGHE*. RECITATIVE. TWAS at the royal feast, for Persia wojx By Phillip's warlike son j 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. AIR. Lovely Thais by his side Bloomjnsr... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...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 Thais, by his side, sate like a blooming Eastern bride, in flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...pit. IX,— Alexander's Feast ; or, the power of Music .—.'in Odefor St. Cicilia's Dai/. — DRYDEN. 'TWAS 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... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - Elocution - 1815 - 340 pages
...wings. D d Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Music. — An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day. — DRYBEN. 'TWAS 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...of fate, And from itself shake off the weight Upon the unworthy mind." ,. -if ALEXANDER'S FEA§T. *Y 'TwAs at the royal feast, for Persia won, By Philip's...should desert in arms be crown'd. The lovely Thais by hre side Sat, like a blooming eastern bride, In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy... | |
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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... 
