| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 632 sayfa
...would only invite more ; and since they accuse me of contempt, I will have it for my accusers. • " No more the Grecian Muse unrivall'd reigns ; To Britain...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." — E. b John Bale, Bishop of Ossory. The work to which Walpole alludes is his "Catalogus Scriptorum... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 590 sayfa
...would only invite more; and . since they accuse me of contempt, I will have it for my accusers. " " No more the Grecian Muse unrivall'd reigns; To Britain...Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray."—E. My brass plate for Bishop Walpole was copied exactly from the print in Dart's Westminster,... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - 1842 - 294 sayfa
...inscription : " No more the Grecian Muse nnrivall'd reigne, To Britain lot the nations homage pay ; She feli a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." Here is Dryden's plain, majestic monument. ShefCHAUCER, COWLEY, BUTLER, ETC. 7 field showed much taste... | |
| 1844 - 142 sayfa
...Poet, and at the same time pointing the finger up to the bust of Milton, which is directly orer it. No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain...lyre of Gray. Died July 30, 1771, aged fifty-four. — John Bacon, sculptor. 8AM0EL BUTLER. — This tomb, as by the inscription appears, was erected... | |
| 1844 - 320 sayfa
...more the Grecian muse unriviill'd reigns, ^ <vi-. * i To Britain let the nations homage pay : ^ v\. She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's" strains, • ,,A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. *>'- ' ., fU> Died July 30, 1771, aged fifty-four. N *'' c/' " Sacred to the best of men, WILLIAM MASON,... | |
| William Collins - 1844 - 328 sayfa
...Man*. No more the Grecian Muse unrivall'd reigtU; To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She hoasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Oray. • Xbtl IB - Cwulr/ CUrcli-jud. TBS POETICAL WORKS or JAMES BEATTIE.LL.D. ( THE suhject of the... | |
| William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 sayfa
...England is represented as rivalling ancient Greece in the choiceness of her poetical treasures : " She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the Lyre of Gray." Feelings not easily expressed crowd upon the mind, as the eye distinguishes the names of Chaucer, Milton,... | |
| Edward Mogg - 1848 - 304 sayfa
...died 1771, beneath which is written — No more the Grecian Muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let thc nations homage pay ; She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of GRA\ : as much appropriate, it has been remarked, to a monument to Milton as to Gray. SAMUEL BUTLER.... | |
| J. T. Headley - 1849 - 358 sayfa
...Muse, pointing to the bust of Milton, with this inscription : — "No more the Grecian muse unrivaled reigns. To Britain let the nations homage pay ; She felt a Homer's power in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." , Near by is Dryden's monument,... | |
| J. T. Headley - 1850 - 264 sayfa
...Muse, pointing to the bust of Milton, with this inscription : — " No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay, She felt a Homer's power in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." Near by is Dryden's monument, and... | |
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