 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...in the myrtle grove, 80 Restore, restore Eurydice to life : O take the Husband, or return the Wife ! He sung, and hell consented To hear the Poet's prayer : Stern Proserpine relented, 86 And gaye him back the fair. Thus song could prevail O'er death and o'er hell, A conquest how hard... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 pages
...in the myrtle grove, Restore, restore Eurydice to life : Oh take the husband, or return the wife ! He sung, and hell consented To hear the poet's prayer...prevail O'er death, and o'er hell, A conquest how hai-d and how glorious! Though fate had fast bound her With Styx nine times round her, Yet music and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...in the myrtle grove, 80 Restore, restore Eurydice to life: Oh take the husband, or return the wife ! He sung, and hell consented To hear the Poet's prayer : Stern Proserpine relented, 85 And gave him back the fair. Thus song could prevail O'er death, and o'er hell, A conquest how hard... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...in the myrtle grove, Restore, restore Eurydice to life : Oh take the husband, or return the wife ! He sung, and hell consented To hear the Poet's prayer;...glorious! Though fate had fast bound her With Styx niue times round her, Yet music and love were victorious. But soon, too soon, the lover turns his eyes:... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...return the wife ! He sung, and hell consented To hear the Poet's prayer : Stern Proserpine relented, 85 And gave him back the fair. Thus song could prevail...and o'er hell, A conquest how hard and how glorious ! Tho' fate had fast bound her 90 With Styx nine times round her8, Yet music and love were victorious.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...in the myrtle grove ; Restore, restore Eurydice to life : Oh, take the husband, or return the wife ! He sung, and Hell consented To hear the poet's prayer...and o'er Hell, A conquest how hard, and how glorious 1 Though Fate had fast bound her, With Styx nine times round her, Yet Music and Love were victorious.... | |
 | John Hawkins - Music - 1875 - 508 pages
...take the husband, or return the wife I VII. He sang, and hell consented To hear the poet's pray'r ; Stern Proserpine relented, And gave him back the fair....and o'er hell, A conquest how hard and how glorious ? Tho* fate had fast bound her With Styx nine times round her Yet music and love were victorious. The-... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 pages
...in the myrtle grove, 80 Restore, restore Eurydice to life: Oh take the husband, or return the wife ! He sung, and hell consented To hear the poet's prayer...and how glorious ! Though fate had fast bound her 90 With Styx nine times round her, Yet music and love were victorious. VI. How wilt thou now the fatal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 570 pages
...Wand'ring in the myrtle groove, Restore, restore Eurydice to life: Oh take the husband, or return the wi He sung, and hell consented To hear the Poet's prayer...death, and o'er hell, A conquest how hard and how glorioi Tho fate had fast bound her With Styx nine times round her*, Yet music and love were victorious.... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - English drama - 1879 - 308 pages
...Sisyphus, stand still ; Ixion rests upon his wheel, And the pale spectres dance. He sung and * * * * consented. To hear the poet's prayer — Stern Proserpine relented, And gave him back the fair."— Pope. BARRIERS D' ENFER, EQUALLY UN-PARISIAN. " But soon, too soon, the lover turns his eyes — Again... | |
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He sung, and hell consented To hear the poet's prayer : Stern Proserpine relented, And gave him back the fair : Thus song could prevail O'er death, and o'er hell, A conquest how hard, and how glorious ! Tho' fate had fast bound her With Styx nine times... 
