 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...th' all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such wot this heaven-loved isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore) No more shall Freedom smile 1 Shall Britons languish and be MEN no more? Since all must life resign, Those sweet rewards, which... | |
 | United States. 37th Congress, 2d session, United States. Congress - Legislators - 1862 - 90 pages
...that he loved. None ever felt more than he — "Since all must life resign, Those sweet delights that decorate the brave 'Tis folly to decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave." But it was something more than the fierce thirst for glory that carried the late Senator to the field... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...all-dazzling Crown • Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such vat this heaven-loved isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore! No...decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave. Among the most instructive and pleasing of Sir William Jones's compositions, are his Letters j from... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heaven-loved isle, Than Lesbos fairer, and the Cretan shore ! No more shall Freedom smile 1 Shall Britons languish, and be men no more ? Since all must life resign, Those sweet rewards, which... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...the all-dazzling crown hides his faint rays and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heaven-loved isle, than Lesbos fairer, and the Cretan shore ! no...brave, 'tis folly to decline, and steal inglorious to a silent grave. SIR W. JONES 460 SONG C WEETEST love, I do not go O for weariness of thee, nor in hope... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...th' all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such wot this heaven-loved isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore! No...decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave. Among the most instructive and pleasing of Sir William Jones's pros* compositions, are his Letters;... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heaven-loved isle, 25 Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No more...resign, Those sweet rewards, which decorate the brave, 30 Tis folly to decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave. Sir William "Jones. CXLV ODE. WRITTEN... | |
 | William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 pages
...the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heaven-loved isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No...decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave. ON HIS TWENTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY. (Milton.) How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heaven-loved isle, 25 Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore! No more shall...resign, Those sweet rewards, which decorate the brave, 30 Tis folly to decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave. Sir William Jones. • CL AN ODE.... | |
 | Oscar Tully Shuck - Celebrities - 1870 - 762 pages
...that he loved! None ever felt more than he — Since all must life resign, Those sweet delights that decorate the brave ' Tis folly to decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave. But it was something more than the fierce thirst for glory that carried the late Senator to the field... | |
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O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend, Dissension, like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks; Such was this heaven-loved... 
