 | Samuel Johnson - Literary Collections - 1968 - 400 pages
...is perceived in the following lines, where the pause is at the second syllable from the beginning. The race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears, To rapture, 'till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice; nor could the muse defend Her son.... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1909 - 1118 pages
...audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus, and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.... | |
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Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd... 
