 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1744 - 496 pages
...Jove : Let down our golden everlafiing chain, Whofeftrong embrace holds heav'n, and earth, and main : Strive all, of mortal and immortal birth, To drag by this the Thund'rer doicn to earth. Ye ftrwc in vain ! If I but ftretch this hand 1 heave the Gods, the ocean, and the... | |
 | John Milton - 1763 - 670 pages
...cverlafting chain, Whofe ftrong embrace holds heav'n, and earth and main : Strive all of mortal or immortal birth, To drag by this the Thund'rer down...this hand, I heave the Gods, the ocean, and the land, I fix the chain to great Olympus height, And the vafl world hangs trembling in my fight. Pope. It is... | |
 | Samuel Boyse - Mythology, Classical - 1771 - 406 pages
...Jove : Let down our golden, everlafting chain, Whofe ftrong embrace holds heav'n, and earth and main : Strive all, of mortal and immortal birth, To drag...but ftretch this hand, I heave the Gods, the ocean, ard the land, I fix the chain to great Olympus height, And the vaft world hangs trembling in my fight.... | |
 | 1772 - 412 pages
...* Let down our golden, sverla fling chain, Whofe Jlrong embrace holdt heav'n, and earth, and main : Strive all, of mortal and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thund'rer down t» earth : Ye Jirive in vain ! If I but ftretck this hand, I heave the gods, tin ocean, and the land,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 396 pages
...heaven, and earth, and. main : Strive all, of mortal and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth? Ye ftrive in vain ! If I but ftretch...this hand, I heave the Gods, the ocean, and the land ; 3» I fix the chain to great Olympus' height, And the vaft. world hangs trembling in my fight t for... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...Jove. Let down our golden everlafting chain, Whole ftreug embrace holds heav'n, and earth, and main. Strive, all, of mortal and immortal birth, To drag by this the thimd'rer down to earth. — "Ye ftrive in v.in. If I but Ilretch tliis hand, I heave the gods, the... | |
 | Homer - 1791 - 410 pages
...intended lo rf prc-lcnt the excellence of monarchy ; that the fwptre ought to be fwayed by one H z hand, Strive all, of mortal and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thund'rer down to earth : Ye drive in vain ! If 1 but ftretch this hand, I heave the Gods, the Ocean, and the Land j 30 J fix the... | |
 | English literature - 1791 - 686 pages
...Heav'n, and Earth, and Main : Strive all, of mortal ami immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth : Ye ftrive in vain ! If I but ftretch this hand, 1 heave the gods, the ocean, and the land ; I fix the chain to great Olympus' height, And the vaft... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...Strive all, of mortal and immortal birth [main: To drag, by this, th* Thunderer down to earth : Ye drive in vain ! If I but ftretch this hand, I heave the Gods, the ocean, and the land ; t fix the chain to great Olympus' height, And the vaft world hangs trembling in my light! For fuch... | |
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1796 - 386 pages
...it together : by which means the whole creation would become unactive, and all its power fufpended. Strive all, of mortal and immortal birth, To drag,...hand, I heave the Gods, the Ocean, and the Land; 30 Others affirm, that by this golden chain may be meant the days of the world's duration, i»|«/ipas... | |
| |
Thunderer down to earth. Ye strive in vain! If I but stretch this hand, I heave the gods, the ocean, and the land; I fix the chain to great Olympus 
