 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 334 pages
...ON CHRIST'S NATIVITY. 87 XXI. In confecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, 199 The Lars andLemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round,...chill marble feems to fweat, 195 While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted feat. XII. Peor and Baalim Forfake their temples dim, With that twice batter'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1785 - 698 pages
...IL inftance that I can at prefent recoHeft. XXI. In confecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, 10,0 The Lars, and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ;...Peor and Baalim Forfake their temples dim, With that twice batter'd God of Paleftine ; And mooned Afhtaroth, 200 Heav'n's queen and mother both, Now fits... | |
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...flower-inwoven trefles torn The nymphs in twilight fhade of tangled thickets XXI. [mourn. In confeerated earth, And on the holy hearth, 190 The Lars and Lemures...altars round, A drear and dying found Affrights the flumens at their fervice quaint; And the chill marble feeras to fweat, 195 While each peculiar power... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...confecrated earth, , And on the holy hearth, '' 190 The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In ums, and altars round, A drear and dying found Affrights...chill marble feems to fweat, 195 While each peculiar Power forgoes his wonted feat. Peor and Baalim XXII, Forfake their temples dim, With that twice batter'd... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pages
...nymphs in twi'iight fiiadc of tangled thicket* mourn. XXI. In confecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In...altars round, A drear and dying found Affrights the fiamcns at their fervice quaint ; And the chill marble fecins to fwcat, While each peculiar power forgoes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...tangled thickets mourn. xxi. In conftcrated earth, And on the holy hearth, 193 The Lars and Lcmures moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round,...Flamens at their fervice quaint ; And the chill marble fcemsto fweat, 195 While each peculiar Power forgoes his wonted feat. XXII. Pcor and Baalim Forfake... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...idols and fearful rites of ancient Superftition defcribed, in Milton's " Hymn on the Nativity i" " In urns and altars round, A drear and dying found Affrights the Flamens, at their fervice quaint." " Andfollen Moloch fed, Hath left, injhadotus dread, His burning idol, all of blackeft hue ; In vain,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...idols and fearful rites of ancient Superftition defcribed, in Milton's " Hymn on the Nativity i" " In urns and altars round, A drear and dying found Affrights the Flamens, at their fervice quaint.'t " And fallen Mo\och fed, Hath left, Injhadows dread, His burning idol, all of blackeft hue... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...strokes of the sublime, + Page 28, In consecrated earth. And on the holy hearth, The lars and lemurs moan with midnight plaint; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint ! Methinks we behold the priests interrupted in... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 456 pages
...mourn. XXI. In confecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, 190 The Lars, and Lemures, moan with midnigh^ plaint ; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying...chill marble feems to fweat, 195 While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted feat. tranflation, thus romantically enlarges the original, B. iii. ft. 75,... | |
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The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power forgoes his wonted seat. 
