 | Virgil - 1803 - 408 pages
...rise. But, Rome ! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey, 1 1 74 Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way; To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free : — These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.'' He paus'd — and, while with... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 328 pages
...rise. But, Rome! 'tis thine alone, with. awful sway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey, 1 17 1 Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way; To tame the proud, the fetterM slave to free : — These are imperial arts, and worthy thee." He paus'd — and, while with... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - 1807 - 298 pages
...judgment unanimously between Cicero and Demosthenes. These two Orators hold nearly an equal rank.* ' But Rome, 'tis thine alone with awful sway • To...war thy own majestic way. ' To tame the proud, the fetterM slave to free : • These are imperial arts, and worthy thee !' DRYBEN. Ji * The opinions of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...state, And, by delays, to put a stop to fate ! Let others better mould the running mass -» Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, (. And soften into...free : — • These are imperial arts, and worthy thee." He paused — and, while with wondering eyes they viewed The passing spirits, thus his speech... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 504 pages
...running mass "i Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, > And soften into flesh a marble face ; X Plead better at the bar ; describe the skies, And...to free : — These are imperial arts, and worthy thee." He paused— and, while with wondering eyes they viewed The passing spirits, thus his speech... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 pages
...sway, -\ To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way ; J To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free : — These are imperial arts, and worthy thee." He paused — and, while with wondering eyes they viewed The passing spirits, thus his speech... | |
 | John Smith, George Canning, Robert Percy Smith, John Hookham Frere - 1809 - 176 pages
...running mass \ Of metals, and inform thr breathing brass ; (. And soften in!o flesh a marble face ; y Plead better at the bar; describe the skies, And when...proud, the fettered slave to free ; These are imperial arts^and worthy thee. DRTOEN. In these lines the invidious assertion included in " Oralnmt causas mellus"... | |
 | David Evans Macdonnel - 1809 - 404 pages
...down the proud." — This is the character of a benefieent conqueror. — In poetical translation, — To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free; These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. IIanc veniam petimus damusque cicis.ti;n. Lat HORACE. — •" We give this privileg( and receive... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...skies, And when the stare descend, and when they rise. But, Pome, 'tis thine alone, with awful «way, To rule mankind, and make the world obey , Disposing...war, thy own majestic way. To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free ; These are imperial arts, and worthy thee." He paus'd : and while with wondering... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...But, îïome, 'tis thine alone, \vi-u awful sway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey , Disponier peace, and war, thy own majestic way. To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to frt-e ; These are imperial art«, and worthy thee." He pans'il : and while with wondering... | |
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Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh, a marble face; Plead better at the bar; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise. But Rome! 'tis thine alone, with awful... 
