 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...its present dress, the beauty and justness of the following lines seemed more striking than ever.— Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes...toys of idle state, How simply, how severely great ! We were led to a balcony, where a number of ladies of the first distinction in Rome were assembled.... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 pages
...present dress, the beauty and justness of the following lines seemed more striking thai) ever.— » Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes...modern hands, Amid the toys of idle state, How simply, bow severely great ! We were led to a balcony, where a number of ladies of the first distinction in... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...they hide. * Octavianus Casar. Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes of modern bands : Amid the toys of idle state, How simply, how severely great ! Then turn, and, while each western dime Presents her tuneful sons to Time, So mark thou Milton's name ; And add, " Thus differs from the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...noble description of the Pantheon : " Mark how the dread Pantheon stands, " Amid the domes of modem hands ! " Amid the toys of idle state, " How simply, how severely great ! " STEEVENS. 3 That it nor GROWS with heat, nor drowns with showers.] Though a building may be drown'd,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...extraordinary, and is scarce to be accounted for but by the preceding observation. 5 Octavianus Cflesar. III. 2. Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes...Presents her tuneful sons to Time, So mark thou Milton's name ; And add, ' Thus differs from the throng The spirit which inform'd thy awful song, Which bade... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. NOTES. " Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes of modern hands ! Amid the toys of simple state, How simply, how severely great ! Then pause ! " Ver. 248. The world's just wonder, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. NOTES. " Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes of modern hands ! Amid the toys of simple state, How simply, how severely great! Then pause ! " Ver. 248. The world's just wonder, and... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1822 - 398 pages
...Laterano Alle eose mortali ando di sopra. This reminds us of the eelehrated passage in Akenside : _ Mark how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes of modern hands, Ode sviii. hi It is remarkahle that Dante has no allusion to the magnifieenee of Gothie arehiteeture,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1822 - 390 pages
...Laterano , Alle cose mortali ando di sojira. This reminds us of the celebrated passage in Akenside : Mark how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes of modern hands, Ode \viii, bi It is remarkable that Dante has no allusion to the magnificence oT Gothic architecture,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...in which every decoration arises from necessity and use, and every pillar has something to support. Mark how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes...toys of idle state, How simply, how severely great ! says the celebrated author of the ode to Lord Huntingdon. Nothing therefore offends me more than... | |
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Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes of modern hands : Amid the toys of idle state, How simply, how severely great ! Then turn, and, while each western clime Presents her tuneful sons to Time, So mark thou Milton's name ; And add, " Thus... 
