 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...Persian abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods ! The princes applaud, with a furious joy ; And the king seiz'da flambeau, with zeal to destroy...another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows Jearn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute; Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...Persian abodes, And 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 hiro to his pray ; And, like another Helen — fir'd another Troy. Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 970 pages
...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,...To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. Drydtti, Ala. Ftait. n > Persia ; it was a favourite residence of Cyrus, because... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods. 1« The princes applaud, with a furious joy ; And the king seiz'da flambeau with zeal to destroy...prey, And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. 1so CHORUS. And the king seiz'da flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way, To light him to... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...temples of their hostile gods ! — The princes applaud, with a furious joy ; And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to destroy : Thais led the way,...To light him to his prey ; And, like another Helen — fired another Troy. Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute... | |
 | Mme. Charlotte Fiske (Bates) Rogé - 1832 - 1022 pages
...To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy! CHORUS, And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy! Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute;... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 pages
...glittering temples of the hostile gods ! — The princes applaud with a furious joy, And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to destroy : Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy." Metrical Romances. A free and easy species of verse, which may be called the lyrical... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 pages
...gods. 795. Breathless eagerness. The princes applaud, with a furious joy ;t And the ki»:r seized a flambeau, with zeal to destroy ; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey ! Burst. And, like another Helen, fired — another Troy. * The burst upon " rouse j" dwelling on the... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 544 pages
...gods ! The princes applaud, with a furious joy ! And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to destroys Thais led the way, , To light him to his prey ; And, like another Helen — fired another Treyv Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...way, [destroy ; To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. CHOBDS. 14S To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy VII. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, \\ hile organs yet were mute ; Timntheus,... | |
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